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...hoped to use his re-election race this year to build the machinery for a White House run in 2008. Last week he became the first political victim of the phenomenal YouTube era. Allen is videotaped at each campaign stop by a "tracker" for his Democratic opponent, James Webb. Such operatives are standard on the stump, and aides warn candidates to ignore them. But Allen, speaking at a rural picnic, took the bait. He singled out the Webb volunteer, who is of Indian descent, telling the crowd to welcome "Macaca." That's either a French--North African ethnic slur...
...Macaca" (a.k.a. S.R. Sidarth) got the gibe on video. Last week, three days after Allen spoke, Webb's campaign posted it on YouTube.com and ignited a firestorm. Now other campaigns are worried about being "YouTubed" and losing control of their message in cyberspace. But not everyone thinks the scrutiny that comes with such publicity is a bad thing. In fact, YouTube could be seen as a new tool for political accountability. As a G.O.P. official notes, "If you don't say something stupid, you don't have to worry about YouTube...
...Republican strategy is simple: focus on the really important issues like flag burning and gay marriage and keep accusing the Democrats of wanting to cut and run in Iraq. This time, however, the Democrats will be fighting back. In Virginia, for example, the campaign of Democratic nominee Jim Webb-a decorated Marine and a former Republican-responded to a Republican ad that accused him of supporting flag burning by saying, "People who live in glass dude ranches"-Webb's opponent, Senator George Allen, spent summers working on ranches while Webb was in Vietnam-"should not question the patriotism of real...
...every Democratic candidate is a populist this year-after all, Hillary Clinton is running for re-election-but Webb, Ohio's Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown and a raft of congressional candidates are running as no-holds-barred gutbucket populists, and most of the other Democratic candidates have touches of populism in their pitches. In Tennessee, for example, moderate Democrat Harold Ford Jr. has embraced the right-wing House Republican immigration plan in his Senate campaign. "I don't think we ran an ad where [Republican beer baron] Pete Coors wasn't seen wearing a tuxedo," says Mandy Grunwald...
...Webb is a political amateur, and party pros consider him "undisciplined." That means he hates fund raising and isn't very comfortable with the backroom coddling of special interests that is a dismally essential part of the job. He entered the race late and precipitately. His answers are sketchy on some domestic-policy issues; Miller has a Washington insider's grasp of issues like education and tax policy, as the Washington Post pointed out in an endorsement editorial last week. Indeed, Webb may be in serious trouble in the primary. A minuscule turnout is expected, less than...