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Have the same sort of importance this time around, and what could the senate race mean for the president's chances in virginia? all right. >> well, sure. >> do we have you there, wes? >> it works both ways. virginia will be critical to the presidential election. >> wes hester there via skype. bad connection. we'll have him on again to talk about the very important senate race in the commonwealth between tim kaine and george allen. we'll see you tomorrow at noon eastern. up next, "andrea mitchell reports." >> hey, craig, thanks so much. coming up next, no luck for herman cain trying to silenc...

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Every poll that we've seen in the past few months has shown it as neck in neck. >> george al with en, of course, lost a close re-election battle to jim webb five years ago in part because of that now famous macaca moment. will virginia voters remember that? >> i think so. i mean, it's part of the political dictionary, especially here in virginia, so he hasn't been running away from that. he's kind of confronting it forth wrightly and trying to lessen the impact, i think. >> how much money is pouring into the race? >> oh, quite a bit. it hasn't picked up to fever pitch yet but both have raised ...