My guess is that since Northern VA has a very high Muslim population, Webb's comments were meant to alienate that voting block towards Allen.
i didn't read any comments by Webb, the question and comments were by Peggy Fox, the news anchor that asked the question. i live in noVA and i am not sure how many muslims with voting rights there are. i tend to doubt many of them are US citizens. NoVA is a dem stronghold and going to go for Webb in any event, i would think. i am definitely surprised by all this weirdness, though, the macaca comment and this stuff too. not a boring campaign, that's for sure!
Not probable. Virginia's Muslim population is small compared to its full population, and many Muslims tend to vote Democrat. It could have been used to shore up support for Webb, though.
Muslims don't vote for conservative patriotic Americans anyway. They're more likely to vote Demcorat, since the Dmes seem to support Sharia concepts and are soft on Islam.
Persoanlly, it offends me when people start interrogating Americans about their ethnicity.
The only ehtnicity that counts is that they are Americans and consider themselves such, regardless of where their ancestors came from. At some point one of them decided they wanted to be American and not something else. At that point they did in fact become American.
"My guess is that since Northern VA has a very high Muslim population,"
I don't think the Moos have been using the Republican Party in NOVA as their trojan horse in recent years. They were before 9/11, but that's over now.
He saw how that worked for Governors Warner and Kaine ~