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By GEORGE BOWLES
Del. Mary Sue Terry of Stuart, the Democrats’ apparent candidate for attorney general, is a woman who marches to the carefully timed beat of her own drummer.
As the prevailing conventional wisdom had it, this was not supposed to have been a good year for Terry — or any other woman — to run for statewide office in Virginia.
The reasons were manifold. The Reagan landslide of last November had been disastrous for the hopes of the two women on the statewide ballot in the Old Dominion. Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro and U.S. Senate hopeful Edythe Harrison were bbth mowed down in the GOP sweep.
Political observers were convinced that any woman candidate running this year would be associated in the minds of most voters with Ferraro and Harrison, both of whom were perceived as liberals, and dismissed as just another left leaning female who need not be taken seriously.
Beyond these problems, however, Terry had others which were just as serious. As all the world knows, the Virginia Democrats are split from top to bottom, at least at the moment, over the battle for the gubernatorial nomination between Lt. Gov. Dick Davis and Attorney General Gerald Baliles. It is a battle which Terry is studiously avoiding, but how severe and lasting the wounds inflicted turn out to be could have an impact on the fortunes of the entire Democratic ticket come next November.
Another concern is the fact that State Sen. Douglas Wilder of Richmond, who is black, ap
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