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Everyone wants Virginia's Senator-elect Jim Webb to talk about Iraq, but the man The Weekly Standard recently called a "blood-and-soil conservative" wants to talk about something else: economic inequality. The day after he accepted George Allen's concession, Webb barely let his NPR interviewer get a word in edgewise before jumping in to correct the misperception that his bid for office was motivated solely by opposition to the war. "I decided to run because of my concern ... with the economic breakdown that's happened in this country along class lines." Class lines? Mr. Webb is a man who has railed against...

Since the mod closed the other thread and asked to open a new one in breaking news, here it is. Webb 52%, Allen 47%, from 186 out of 2443 precincts.

Webb Urged to Withdraw Over Content of Novels By Monisha Bansal CNSNews.com Staff Writer October 27, 2006 (Editor's note: Some of the content below may offend some readers.) (CNSNews.com) - Virginia Democratic candidate Jim Webb should pull out of the race for the U.S. Senate because of the controversial content in his novels, a conservative group said Friday. "I am outraged and sickened by what I have read in the book written by a U.S. Senate candidate," Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, said during a press conference outside Webb's campaign headquarters. Lafferty was referring to Webb's...

RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) -- A bitter Senate campaign entering its final stretch turned uglier Friday, as a Republican incumbent pulled up sexual passages from novels written by his Democratic opponent, who called the move baseless character assassination. In a news release and list of quotes posted Friday on the Drudge Report Web site, Sen. George Allen, R-Virginia, accused his opponent, former Navy Secretary Jim Webb, of "demeaning women" and "dehumanizing women, men and even children" through his fiction writings. At least two of the listed passages include children in sexual situations.

October 27, 2006George Allen: You Have Not Earned the Right to Question Jim Webb’s Recollections of War – So Just Shut UpAnd to Chris LaCivita, Who Did Serve, You Should Know Better – Shame on You To: George Allen and his campaign From: Steve Jarding Re: Shame on both of you George Allen and his campaign hit men this week chose to again attack Jim Webb and his military experiences, this time by taking passages from Webb’s novels to try to suggest that the explicit war time experiences Webb writes about are demeaning and repugnant. On their attacks, I would...