Cantor donated $25,000 to an anti-incumbent super PAC. The super PAC influenced a primary between two GOP Representatives who had their district combined. Cantor is also feeling the heat from his party because the super PAC is running campaigns against other GOP party members and allies.

Brad Dayspring, a top Cantor aide, resigned from his position along side Cantor after a heated argument with Mike Ference, another top Cantor aide, over the unveiling of Cantor's new JOBS Bill. Witnesses say that Dayspring and Ference nearly came to blows after bipartisan support and support from business leaders began to fall apart.

Eric Cantor and John Boehner have been feuding behind the scenes for the past year. Senior staffers to Boehner and Cantor have met several times during the past month in an attempt to iron out their differences — which range from style to strategy to substance. They have recently decided, for the good of the Republican Party to set aside or at least tone down their rivalry.

On August 11, 2006, at a campaign stop in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen twice used the word macaca to refer to S.R. Sidarth, an Indian-American, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the opposing Webb campaign. Allen apologized, first saying he intended to say "mohawk," an incorrect reference to Sidarth's hair cut. He then revised his story, saying he meant to call Sidarth "caca" and then claiming that he did not know the meaning of the word. 'Macaca' is a pejorative epithet used by francophone co...