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By GEORGE BOWLES
The philosopher George Santayana once warned that “those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
So it seems to be with Virginia’s Democratic party.
Here we are, a little more than three months before the Democrats will, presumably, nominate a candidate for the United States Senate. That candidate will be called upon to oppose Republican John Warner, a tough, popular and wellfinanced incumbent who lives in Fauquier County.
But up to now the Democrats, who swept the statewide elections in 1981, gained three congressional seats in 1982, and fought the GOP to a standstill in the legislative elections of 1983, appear to be dead in the water in the Senate race of 1984.
As this is written, only two potential candidates
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