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By GEORGE BOWLES
In many important ways, the concern* of Virginia delegates attending the Republican National Convention in Dallas are similar to those of the Old Dominion’s Democrats who attended their party’s convention in San Francisco last month. In many other ways, however, the differences between the two gatherings are staggering.
First, the similarities.
The Virginians in Dallas, like those in San Francisco, are privately far more worried about the politics of 1986 than they are about this year’s electoral effort. To be sure, a great to-do is being made about the need for a fullcourt press to re-elect incumbent Republican U. S. Sen. John Warner, carry the state for President Reagan and increase the size of the Virginia GOP congressional delegation. Only the last, however, is a matter of serious concern. The Republicans regard the first two items on their agenda as in the bag.
Thus, except for the halfdozen congressional races, most of the social circuit chit-chat and hotel room caucuses center around next year’s races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general as well as the perennial Republican goal of increasing the party’s holdings in the General Assembly. All 100 seats in the House of Delegates will also be up for election next year.
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