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By LINDA B.kINES
Rappahannock New* Special Writer
By comparison to the voting strength of some other counties, it was a small hop. However, Rappahannock's jump onto the slow but steady bandwagon of former Attorney General Andrew P. Miller anticipated his arrival on the third ballot at the Democratic State Convention.
Miller, who gained votes steadily after 1,222 on the first ballot, was acclaimed the Democratic nominee last Saturday in Williamsburg for the U. S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. William L. Scott, a Republican. Miller will face his Republican opponent, former GOP national co-chairman Richard D. Obenshain, in face-to-face debates before the Nov. 7 general election.
An "open convention coalition” of the seven other candidates competing with Miller for the Democratic nomination June 9 and 10 mistakenly hoped for a bandwagon of their own to "Stop Andy.” Miller had reached an unofficial total of 1,360 votes j^n the decisive ballot, which was 37 votes short of the 1,397 majority needed for the nomination. Then the temporary coalition stood together on the platform to withdraw and to acclaim Miller the victor. Miller was short of official victory and seemed unstoppable with his closest rival, state Sen. Clive L. DuVal of McLean, trailing by 780 votes.
Rappahannock's four delegates had four votes in a participating total of 2,792 delegates. Floor workers tried to woo Mary Edna Schaeffer, Dorothy Davis, Hubert Gilkey, and E. H. Bailey as if
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