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source and financial mainstay of the revived Virginia Republican party. They would no doubt rally behind the former Senator. This would leave the party regulars high and dry and, it would appear, with little choice but to get behind the Byrd effort.
Just what Mr. Byrd, himself, thinks of all this is
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