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(Continued from Page 3) etna to many voters in Virginia, a right-to-work state.
It was another person’s death that suddenly thrust Warner onto the campaign trail as his party’s senatorial nominee in 1978. He had lost the nomination at the GOP convention, but the party’s nominee, Richard Obenshain, was killed in an airplane crash.
Warner was then picked by the (Arty’s State Central Committee, since he was the runner up at the convention and because other potential candidates withdrew.
Aided by more than $1 million of his own money that year in his nomination and general election campaigns, and by actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was then his wife, Warner won by a razor-thin margin that year of about 4,700 votes, narrowly defeating Democrat Andrew P. Miller by 0.4 percent.
In interviews Warner is quick to discount Ms. Taylor’s influence, and this year he said he plans to spend only $1,000 of his own money.
Rarely in the campaign has Warner been on the defensive. The PAC charges Harrison raised were about the strongest attacks she has made, and they prompted a “setting the record straight” press release from his campaign.
It not only rebutted that charge, but denied her charges that he has been “the biggest spender in Virginia history,” that he was against the GI Bill, or that he has “sacrificed our conventional forces and readiness to blindly fund strategic weapons.”
Even Harrison’s chaises on Warner's voting record with respect to women hasn’t appeared to hurt him in polls, and it isn’t clear whether the “gender gap” will greatly benefit Harrison, the first woman to run for the
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