June 16, 2006

Politiscope: Game On

Former Republican Jim Webb's victory in the Virginia Senate race puts a new face on the anti-war movement, writes John Mercurio, and, more importantly, its potency in a Democratic primary.

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Webb's focus on Allen's party loyalty reflects the dramatic turnabout in Virginia over the past six years. In his successful 2000 challenge to then-incumbent Sen. Chuck Robb, D-Va., also a decorated Marine veteran of Vietnam, Allen repeatedly said Robb embraced "Clinton values, not Virginia values," and he attacked Robb as a Clinton loyalist. "Heck, even Hillary Clinton doesn't agree with President Clinton 87 percent of the time," Allen would say on the stump. It worked for Allen in '00 to hang eight years of Clinton around Robb's neck. In '06, Webb will try to hang six years of Bush around Allen's.

2006 Race Rankings House races are updated this week, with a new contest atop the list of most vulnerable seats. Plus:   Senate races · Governor races · White House

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