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gubernatorial nomination with relative ease. It was also assumed that, since the GOp image makers had been able to paint Davis as a liberal in his unsuccessful 1982 senate race against Paul Trible, they would be able to do so again in this year’s contest for governor. Not to worry, so the word went, any Republican candidate could whip Davis.
Attorney General Gerald Baliles, davis’ riyal for the nomination, was regarded as hopelessly behind in the Democratic competition for delegates.
But in the wake of the Democratic caucuses, this rosy GOP scenario has undergone a stunning change. The emergence of Baliles, not Davis, as the Democrats’ front-runner sent shock waves through the GOP.
On the Republican side of the hill, former Fairfax Del. Wyatt Durrette, now of Chesterfield, and 8th District Congressman Stanford Parris of Fairfax have been engaged in a seemingly onesided contest for the GOP’s nomination for governor. Durrette claims he has captured the lion’s share of delegates at party mass meetings held thus far and, indeed, says he has the nomination wrapped up.
Unlike the Democrats, however, GOP delegates, unless instructed by their mass meetings, are not committed to support any specific candidate at the nominating convention, so exact delegate strengths are impossible to determine. Both camps, however, acknowledge that Durrette is well ahead.
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