From Pews To Parks, Candidates Blanket Va.

In the afternoon, Kilgore met privately with supporters and last night left the state altogether to join Allen, son of the late Redskins coach, at FedEx Field in Landover.

Allen, wearing a Redskins jacket with his name embroidered on the sleeve, walked with Kilgore among the tailgaters as television lights and cameras trailed behind.

"Are you from Virginia?" Allen shouted to a group in lawn chairs.

"No, but I work in Virginia," responded Glenn Noble, from North Potomac.

"All right, keep paying those taxes," Kilgore shouted back, to the laughter of the crowd.

Football fans from Virginia got extra attention.

"Can I get you anything? A beer?" Ted Krawl, a fan from Arlington, asked Kilgore.

"Nah," the candidate responded, "I got all these people with me."

In southwestern Virginia, Kaine's 10-stop tour climaxed with a rally of more than 300 in Big Stone Gap, home to A. Linwood Holton, Kaine's father-in-law and a former Republican governor, who has campaigned with his son-in-law all weekend.

Earlier, at a school auditorium in Grundy, where flakes of the ceiling were falling to the floor, Kaine told a crowd of more than 200 that he and Warner were proud of improvements in the local economy but that he would be "even more diligent in working to bring jobs here. We've got to do better if we're going to compete with those nations who are competing with us."

The message resonated with Marty Stevenson. "It's just like it's been said here today," the 44-year-old Grundy resident said. Kaine is going to "increase employment, save jobs from being outsourced and keep the economy moving forward. He's going to improve the quality of life for all Virginians."

In Richmond, Warner went to five predominantly African American churches, asking "respectfully and prayerfully" as he said in one, that churchgoers consider Kaine. "He is a man of faith. He was a missionary. He was a civil rights lawyer. And he was your mayor," Warner said to congregants at Great Hope Baptist Church. "Of course, you don't see that on television. All you see on the television is them trying to tear him down."