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r-From Both Barrels
Lull Before
The Storm
By GEORGE BOWLES
To the casual observer, and casual observers make up about 99.9 percent of the Virginia electorate, the summer months of any year in which there are no statewide or congressional elections provide the nearest thing to a period of political calm the jaded voters of the Old Dominion are allowed to enjoy.
So it is in these steaming Dog Days of 1983. In the cool of November the citizens will go to the polls, probably in modest numbers, and elect 100 members of the House of Delegates, 40 state senators and a host of local officials. But these are essentially neighborhood scraps, and in a hefty number of cases the candidates for the various posts have no opposition.
For the aforementioned 99.9 percent of the electorate, it will be a relatively relaxing time.
But for those who make up that remaining . 1 percent, the scene is vastly different. For them it is a period of quietly frantic preparation, of a great scurrying around, and of peering into crystal balls. Their worry is not this November, but the Novembers yet to come. Specifically, their concerns are the elections of 1984 and 1985.
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