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It could do so by bolstering the chances of election of Del. Mary Sue Terry of Stuart, who is generally expected to seek and receive the Democratic nomination for attorney general, perhaps without opposition.
Now none of this is to say that Terry has a great deal in common philosophically with either Harrison or Ferraro. She is a moderate conservative who is very much aligned with the mainstream of Virginia’s political thought. She is, in a word, a Robb Democrat who, although a party loyalist, maintains, a respectful distance from her more liberal national Democratic party colleagues.
So how could she be helped by Ferraro’s candidacy?
It could happen in two ways.
Harrison is, rightly or wrongly, perceived as a hard-working but, by Virginia standards, a hopelessly liberal candidate. She ip, at least, at this point, seen as having little chance of defeating the generally popular and lavishly financed Warner. Harrison is believed to have little support among the state’s vast pool of independent conservatives whose blessing is a powerful and often decisive tutor in any
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