Whoops! Just realized that Joe addressed this in an update to an earlier post.
According to John at AMERICAblog, Larry Sabato has spoken out on this issue:
Professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who is a big deal, says he doesn’t believe George Allen when he says he never used the N-word. Sabato says Allen DID use the N-word, whatever he claims to the contrary. And even more interestingly, Sabato says there is “other evidence” that he won’t go into on the show that proves Allen has used the N-word. Wow. According to Josh Marshall, Sabato and Allen both graduated from UVA in 1974. Does that mean Sabato knows first-hand that George Allen is a racist?
Sabato is probably the biggest, most important political observer in the state of Virginia. This is huge.
Check out the MSNBC video here.