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By SEAN ADAMS
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“Anytime you're the first at doing anything, it carries a greater challenge, a greater responsibility,” Edythe C. Harrison said last week.
The challenge for Harrison is to be the first Virginia woman to win a seat in the United States Senate, a predominantly male political establishment consisting of 96 men and two women.
Harrison, a former state legislator from Norfolk, won the Democratic nomination in a convention last month and is challenging Republican Sen. John W. Warner of Fauquier County.
Time and time again, Harrison, a 49-year-old selfdescribed “professional volunteer,” has called herself a “non-traditional candidate,” a woman who presents new ideas, new strengths and a promise of establishing new coalitions in the traditional world of Virginia politics.
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