The Washington Post has just given Jim Webb their endorsement:

[Jim Webb] was prescient in warning, back in 2002, that the war in Iraq risked stranding the United States in a long-term occupation without an exit strategy. An intelligent man with a record of integrity, he has resisted the packaging of political consultants, which can only be a good thing. Those assets, as well as his deep familiarity with military and national security affairs, offer the promise that he would make an able, if unorthodox, U.S. senator. And the fact that his youngest son is deployed as a marine in Iraq gives him a perspective that is rare in today's Congress.

I should note that MANY Democrats, though not enough in Congress, predicted the quagmire and criticized the lack of an exit strategy. So Webb was not ALONE in that, but it still is a major difference between him and his opponet, Racist Republican Allen. Speaking of whom, the Washington Post has this to say about Racist Allen:

Quite simply, he is a mediocre senator whose six years of undistinguished service do not justify rehiring.

...Mr. Allen lacks any comparable independent-mindedness. He has spent his time in the Senate in lock step with the Bush administration, embracing tax cuts that have imperiled the nation's fiscal health; subsidies for oil and gas companies that hardly needed the help; prisoner detention policies that have undercut America's image abroad; and restrictions on embryonic stem cell research despite its medical potential.

...Virginians deserve better and more enlightened representation. Mr. Webb offers that hope.