CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) -- A protester who shouted questions at Virginia Senator George Allen was pushed to the floor during Allen's campaign appearance today at a Charlottesville hotel.

Allen held a campaign event there this morning with North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole.

WVIR-TV reports that the protester moved toward Allen and asked the Republican incumbent if he ever spat at his first wife. Allen declined to answer the question.

On the video, at least two men -- one with an Allen sticker clearly visible on his jacket -- grab the protester and one of them pulls him to the floor.

The Daily Progress identifies the protester as Mike Stark, a law student at the University of Virginia. The paper reports that Stark has his own blog and has confronted Allen at previous campaign events.

from WVIR

Two men wrestle a protester to the ground at a George Allen campaign event in Charlottesville.

Stark reportedly describes the behavior as "Roger and Me," after filmmaker Michael Moore's movie documenting his pursuit of GM CEO Roger Smith over downsizing in the auto industry. He tells The Associated Press he will press charges against the people who accosted him.

The Allen campaign said Stark disrupted an Allen press conference in August.

Things were somewhat calmer in Martinsville, Virginia, where Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb was campaigning. Webb says he thinks negative messages from Republicans may have given him a lead in the tight race against Republican incumbent George Allen.

In a CNN poll among likely voters, 50 percent favored Webb, while 46 percent favored Allen and four percent were undecided. Webb's edge matches the margin of error of plus-or-minus four percentage points, meaning he can be considered slightly ahead.

At a campaign appearance in Martinsville today with former Governor Mark Warner, Webb called Allen's criticism of passages in his novels "unacceptable." He told more than 100 supporters that Allen's attacks "crossed the line."

Martinsville-area resident Janet Reid says Henry County is heavily Republican, but she says ... quote ... "people are actually talking about Iraq."

Webb has spoken out against the war, while Allen has been a strong supporter.

Webb also visited union members on strike at a Goodyear plant in Danville. Webb called for closing tax loopholes that he says require working people to bear an unfair tax burden.

He told more than 50 people that class division is one of the country's great problems.

Leaders of the Steelworkers local said the biggest reason they support Webb is that Republican Senator George Allen belittled them in 1997 when he was governor and they were on strike.