I have left most of the Allen-Webb blogging to Dean, but note that the polls have pciked up steady Allen momentum, and the general dismay at the left's tactics have probably crippled the Webb campaign beyond repair.
Allen's team has taken the opportunity to put their issue comparison front and center, and a press corps exhausted by and complicit in the most distasteful big campaign in recent memory will have to start paying attention at some point, which will extend Allen's lead..