Biden stops in two Va. cities today, another tomorrow

Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, begins a two-day swing across Southside Virginia today.

He'll be in Martinsville and Danville today and in Suffolk tomorrow.

On the Republican side, two of the party's big names are coming to Chesterfield and Virginia Beach.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Steve Forbes, the publisher and former presidential candidate, will appear tomorrow on behalf of John McCain.

Guiliani and Forbes will visit a small business in Midlothian. Guiliani then will attend a veterans rally in Virginia Beach.

-- Jeff E. Schapiro