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The Wilder Factor

It is certainly true that Sen. Wilder was a factor in Pickett’s withdrawal from the race, but he was only one of many factors. Chief among these was the fact that, in spite of his manifest honesty and many personal talents. Del. Pickett repeatedly proved himself to be ineffectual as Candidate Pickett.

Still the perception persists, and is being energetically spread, that it was Sen. Wilder who did him in. In doing so, the word goes, he humbled Gov. Robb and the rest of the Democratic Party leadership.

Thus, according to Gov.

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