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Democratic administration, which probably has be higher approval rating among many Republicans than it does among liberal Democrats. This will be especially difficult since Baliles is at least as conservative as Robb. It will be hard to make charges of liberalism stick.
Also the Republicans will be looking for ways to capitalize on what they perceive as the advantage of having a black and a woman on the opposing ticket. This must be done without crossing that dangerously ill-defined line into racism or sexism, however subtle or well-camouflaged with code words it may be. That job will probably be left to rightwing surrogates.
Baliles will have to persuade the electorate that he is the logical heir to the Robb style of leadership, of which it seems agreed the voters generally approve. At the same time, he will have to convince black voters that he genuinely supports the candidacy of Wilder, while persuading white voters that the aggressive and charismatic senator, as lieutenant governor, would not wield inordinate power in a Baliles administration.
And so, for both the Democrats and Republicans, the decisions involved in this year’s races are more complicated, and more sensitive, than those in any other statewide elections held heretofore in the Old Dominion.
Their outcome could thus make social as well as political history in the Commonwealth.
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