Allen, Kaine race off to fast start

Any thoughts that Virginia’s U.S. Senate candidates would take a day off before November, even to celebrate an Election Night victory, were quickly dispelled Wednesday.

Virginia’s Senate race was already well under way just hours after Republican George Allen captured his party’s nomination Tuesday night and officially kicked off his campaign against Democrat Tim Kaine, inciting the political trash talk and big-money spending that promises to persist for the next five months.