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By GEORGE BOWLES
The so-called debate last week between Republican Sen. John Warner and Del Edythe Harrison of Norfolk, his Democratic opponent in this fall’s Senate race, did about all an event of that type could be expected to do.
It gave the two candidates an opportunity of sorts to showcase their political wares, and it gave the public an opportunity to see them on television or hear them on the radio as they responded to reporters’ questions.
But a real debate it was not. This kind of face-off never is, and something should be done about it. More about that in a moment.
First, however, what about the event as it happened?
As University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato noted, both candidates, in their own way , emerged as winners.
Harrison demonstrated what must have been to her supporters a reassuring - even surprising - familiarity with both national issues and governmental
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