George Allen called claims that he severed the head of a deer and put it on the mailbox of a home believed to be owned by a black family "absolutely false," "pure fabrication" and "nonsense," according to the Washington Post. But the allegations are confirmed by another one of Allen's college teammates.
Meanwhile, another acquaintance of Allen's said she heard him use racial slurs.
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: If Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell's "double-digit deficit in the polls turns into a thrashing on Election Day, it may hurt Republican incumbent Mike DeWine in his bid to fend off Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown."
Time: "Democratic chances of winning key races [in Ohio] are so high that top officials are trying to guard against activists getting complacent."
A blog that supports Sherrod Brown put out a spoof ad today.
Michael Hagen, a Temple University researcher who conducted a recent poll for The Philadelphia Inquirer ... "was "astounded" when 24 percent of voters surveyed rated Santorum a zero on a scale of zero to 10.
Hartford Courant: "A day after saying in a major campaign speech that "we must get tougher with the Iraqi political leadership," Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman met Tuesday with Iraq's president and had a pleasant conversation."
US Senate candidate Harold Ford called Sen. Bob Corker (R) "a wimp" for not agreeing to participate in an additional debate.
CQ has changed their rating of the Tennessee US Senate race to "No Clear Favorite" from "Leans Republican."
Mark Warner: "I intend to make a formal decision about whether I run between Election Day and Thanksgiving."
WSJ: "a small but vocal band of conservative iconoclasts say they would prefer to see their own party lose."
NY Times: This is "the most toxic midterm campaign environment in memory... Democratic and Republican strategists said they expected over 90 percent of the advertisements to be broadcast by Nov. 7 to be negative."
Micky Kaus: "Up to now the Conventional Wisdom (CW) has been that the Dems have a very good chance to retake the House but will have a much harder time picking up the six seats necessary to take over the Senate. Is it possible this is backwards--that the Dems actually have a better chance of taking the Senate than the House?"