Backfiring – yeah maybe

So just after I write a long post about the Virginia Senate campaign, Kos posts about an internal poll from the DSCC showing Webb with the lead and speculates that the dirty book strategy may have backfired on Allen.

Allen (R) 38 with leaners: 43
Webb (D) 43 with leaners: 47

This is an internal and I have seen nothing to corroborate, so take it for however many grains of salt you wish.

In addition, he also mentions that the Webb campaign will counterattack by demanding that Allen open his sealed arrest records from 1974. That is just awesome. With eight days left, Allen’s arrest record is the very last thing he is going to want to talk about. Nice move by the Webb team. Steve Jarding, Webb’s manager, is just brilliant, with a tongue as sharp as a tack. Have a look at this well executed verbal beating he gives Mary Matalin - outstanding.

Cue Allen bitching about the “politics of personal destruction” and “why can’t we focus on the issues”.