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In the wake of his June 13 primary win over Harris Miller, former Navy Secretary James Webb (D) has added eleven percentage points to his support in a match-up with incumbent Senator George Allen (R). The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll for the U.S. Senate shows Allen leading Webb 51% to 41%.

Senators John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, and Harry Reid are congratulating themselves today. Thanks in part to their unusual primary endorsement, former Reagan Navy Secretary James Webb defeated Harris Miller for the Virginia Democratic senatorial nomination Tuesday night and will challenge Republican George Allen in November. Look for a fiery antiwar campaign by Webb, a Vietnam War hero who broke ranks with the GOP over Iraq. Perhaps most interestingly, he thinks Reagan Democrats can find a place in the party of Howard Dean, declaring precociously in his victory speech that “it’s time to welcome them home.” Just when it seemed like...

One Democrat calls his rival the "anti-Christ of outsourcing" U.S. jobs and argues that he's trying to buy a win in the Virginia primary. The other fires back, labeling his opponent a sexist who is hostile to affirmative action and is, at heart, a Republican. Accusations fly freely in the Democratic primary between decorated Vietnam veteran and Reagan-era Navy secretary Jim Webb and former Internet industry lobbyist Harris Miller. The winner Tuesday will face first-term Sen. George Allen, a potential 2008 presidential candidate. Virginia is unaccustomed to primaries, especially bitter ones; the last Democratic Senate primary was in 1994. The...

The flier put out by Jim Webb's campaign for U.S. Senate described his opponent as a corporate lobbyist who made money by sending American jobs overseas. But what caught Dan Smolen's attention was the cartoon that accompanied the text: That of a man with a hook nose and money spilling from his pockets. It was a caricature of Harris Miller, Webb's opponent in Tuesday's Democratic primary who happens to be Jewish. The image made Smolen, who is Jewish and Stafford County's Democratic chairman, uncomfortable. "I don't think whoever did the cartoon caricature meant this as an ethnic slur," he said,...

Dear Friend, Join our Power of 2 (Webb2) Campaign! Deliver 2 more Webb voters other than yourself to the polls. Tomorrow, Democrats from across Virginia will go to the polls to choose their candidate for the U.S. Senate. I believe they have the chance to change the course of politics in the Commonwealth and across the nation, and indeed to begin to make history. With your support, I want to lead that historic charge and am confident that with your help I will win. The need for this change is the common theme I have heard from concerned voters over...

Since Virginia has open primaries, ANY REGISTERED VOTER can vote in ANY primary. As a conservative, I plan to hold my nose and vote in the Democrat primary tomorrow, Tues. June 13. Jim Webb and Harris Miller are running for the Democrat nomination for US Senate to oppose George Allen. Miller is the more liberal, Webb is a former Reagan official and military man. The Democrats, desparate for a win, seem to be pushing Webb in many parts of VA. I plan to VOTE FOR MILLER and encourage all to do the same, as he is the weakest opponent to...

RICHMOND, Va. — One Democrat calls his rival the "anti-Christ of outsourcing" U.S. jobs and argues that he's trying to buy a win in the Virginia primary. The other fires back, labeling his opponent a sexist who is hostile to affirmative action and is, at heart, a Republican. Accusations fly freely in the Democratic primary between decorated Vietnam veteran and Reagan-era Navy secretary Jim Webb and former Internet industry lobbyist Harris Miller. The winner Tuesday will face first-term Sen. George Allen, a potential 2008 presidential candidate. --snip The latest sparring occurred in a debate Friday. The two clashed over a...

Richmond, VA (AHN) - U.S. Senate candidate James H. Webb is being accused of disparaging his opponent's religion with a flier that shows the Jewish businessman with a hooked nose and money spilling from his pockets. The Associated Press reports the flier is titled "Miller the Job Killer" and was intended to go to labor groups. It refers to Harris Miller, Webb's rival for the Democratic nomination in Virginia. The AP reports the flier depicts Miller in a comic-book cartoon style. It shows him with a grotesquely hooked nose and money spilling from his suit pockets. He is shown ordering...

Webb, a former Reagan administration Navy secretary who left the Republican Party over the Iraq war, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to take on GOP Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) in the fall. ADVERTISEMENT Webb defeated lobbyist and longtime Democratic Party activist Harris Miller after a bruising primary in which voters decided between a traditional and unabashed liberal (Miller) and a former Republican (Webb) whose populist campaign was aimed at so-called Reagan Democrats — namely, rural, white moderates. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, Webb had 73,031 votes, or 54 percent, compared with 61,566 votes, or 46 percent,...

(CNSNews.com) - Voters will go to the polls in Virginia on Tuesday, June 13, to pick either a former corporate lobbyist or a former official from the Reagan administration to be the Democratic challenger to incumbent U.S. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) in this fall's election. The former lobbyist is Harris Miller, a longtime advocate for the information technology industry, who promises to "tax the profits of Big Oil to pay for alternative fuels" and fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to "change course in Iraq." His opponent is James Webb, who served as secretary of the U.S. Navy from 1987 to...

Dear Friend, Stand up to the attacks! Contribute today! I write to you with an urgent plea that I believe will be the difference between victory and defeat for Jim Webb and for Virginia on June 13. It is a plea for money. The truth is, we need to raise $100,000 in the next seven days or Jim will not have enough funds to defeat the brutal, cynical, negative attacks of lobbyist Harris Miller. Last week, Harris Miller spent $100,000 to run ads attacking Jim. We have all seen the lies, the distortions, the misrepresentations of Harris Miller. It is...

Six weeks ago, New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told the dueling Senate candidates in Virginia to cool it. Then the campaign started heating up. During and after a televised debate last week, James Webb called Harris Miller "the Antichrist of outsourcing." Interrupted once too often by Miller, Webb told Miller to "shut your mouth." A blogger who supports Webb called Miller "Benedict Arnold on Steroids." Miller and Webb are competing in a June 13 Democratic primary. The winner will take on U.S. Sen. George Allen, a Republican, in the general election Nov....

The two Democrats seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., virtually ignored him yesterday and trained their sights on each other. In the first televised joint appearance of the campaign, James Webb referred to a union description of Harris Miller as "the anti-Christ of outsourcing." At one point, after being interrupted by Miller, an angry-appearing Webb exclaimed: "Harris, if you shut your mouth, I'll answer the question."

May 20, 2006 Sen. George Allen's re-election race this year is more about 2008 than 2006. Democrats know unseating the incumbent Virginia Republican would be a long shot, but they hope that their best attempt will tarnish his image, force him to drain his $7 million campaign accounts and take the wind out of his presidential sails. Jim Webb, a former Republican who was President Reagan's secretary of the Navy, and Harris Miller, a Northern Virginia technology executive, will face off June 13 for the Democratic nomination. The race has piqued the interest of national leaders. Sen. Charles E. Schumer...

When is a Senate race more than just a Senate race? When Democrats think they can score a trifecta by beating a Republican incumbent in the South, hobbling him as a possible presidential candidate and boosting the fortunes of one of their White House wannabes. That's the weighty challenge for novice politician Jim Webb, a decorated Vietnam vet and a senior Pentagon official under Ronald Reagan who is challenging Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia. Webb still has to get through the June 13 Democratic primary, but pragmatists in his party are already tipping him as the man to win...

Sen. George Allen, who has tried to reach out to minority voters in recent years, wore a Confederate flag pin on his shirt collar in a high-school yearbook photo, a national magazine reported yesterday. As a high school student in Palos Verdes, Calif., Allen was seen riding in or driving a Ford Mustang with either a Confederate flag license plate or Confederate flag imagery on the car, The New Republic quoted witnesses as saying. The Virginia Republican, seeking re-election now and weighing a presidential bid in 2008, was to depart today to co-host a civil-rights history tour for members of...

FAIRFAX -- Democrat Harris N. Miller formally announced his candidacy Tuesday for U.S. Senate, saying it is time to overturn the "reckless policies" of President Bush and Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia. Kicking off a statewide campaign swing from his home turf of Fairfax County, the 54-year-old high-tech executive and former lobbyist said voters want a change from policies that have ballooned the national debt and "misled" the nation into a war in Iraq with no end in sight. "Washington is broken," Miller told about 50 supporters who gathered at George Mason University. "It's crippled by corruption, partisanship, special-interest...

Sens. George Allen (Va.) and John McCain (Ariz.) could square off for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination — if an old McCain friend doesn’t get to Allen first.Former Navy Secretary James Webb, one of McCain’s “oldest friends,” is vying for the Democratic nomination to take on Allen in his reelection bid this November. Although Webb must first get past lobbyist Harris Miller in the Democratic primary, political analysts say his candidacy could end up hampering Allen’s presidential aspirations and bolstering McCain’s.“Party activists expect a presidential contender to have strong home support, and if Webb (or Miller) could even come close...

Sen. George Allen predicted last year that Democrats would seek revenge against him for helping make Republican gains in the Senate, and it appears he was right. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), two Democrats hoping to replace him and the New Hampshire Democratic Party last week delivered stinging messages and even called for his resignation. The groups criticized Allen, calling him "bored George," for complaining about the slow pace of the Senate. They also say he should decide whether he is running for re-election or making a bid for the White House. Mr. Allen was chairman of the National...

March 28, 2006--In his bid for re-election, Virginia Senator George Allen (R) now leads businessman Harris Miller (D) by 29 percentage points, 56% to 27%. The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll in the race also shows Allen leading former Navy secretary James Webb by 24 percentage points, 54% to 30%. Neither challenger has come within single digits thus far in the campaign, but Allen's fortunes have bobbed a bit. In early December, with no Democrat challenger yet formally announcing a run, Allen enjoyed a very comfortable lead over each of four possibilities when voters were asked about prospective match-ups. At...