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Independent Candidate May Be Key to Virginia Race
An independent candidate in Virginia for U.S. Senate said Thursday that she is negotiating with Democrat Jim Webb and Republican Sen. George Allen about withdrawing from the race and backing one of them.
Gail Parker, running a lightly funded campaign focused on a vast expansion of passenger rail systems, is drawing about 2 percent support in recent polls.
But in the close race between Allen and Webb, her withdrawal could determine whether Republicans retain their Senate majority.
A statewide poll released Monday by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. showed 47 percent of registered voters supported Allen, 43 percent backed Webb, 2 percent favored Parker and 8 percent remained undecided. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
On Wednesday, Webb landed the endorsement of fellow Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, who is now mayor of Richmond. Wilder said Webb could beat Allen if he gets a large voter turnout in predominantly black Richmond and in southeastern Virginia cities with large minority populations.
Story Continues Below Allen also has been trying to quell outrage over a racial slur that is obscure in the U.S. which he directed at one of Webb's aides, a man of Indian descent whom he apologized to in person.
© 2006 Associated Press.
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