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combination of a number of factors which the state party in general and the Durrette campaign in particular refuse to recognize exist.
The first of these is that Durrette has run a defensive campaign from the beginning. He has found no way to really attack Baliles who is about as conservative as is Durrette. Secondly, said the official, Durrette has shown very little business seense in running a campaign. He has raised more than $2.5 million, yet he is almost broke. Still he has a top-heavy headquarters staff which often works at cross purposes. And finally he constantly gets conflicting advice from the Republican regulars and the independent conservatives, the latter of whom, it seems, have all but taken over the management of his campaign.
It may be that the split in the advice he is getting is his most serious problem. He continually finds himself in the position of having to please his various mentors and brush off the interesting remarks which give voice to their particular brand of politics.
For example, several weeks ago it was former Gov. Mills Godwin who blasted Wilder because, 15 years before, Wilder had wanted to change the state • song. Wilder said Carry Me Back to Old Virginia contained words which might offend contemporary blacks. Since there seemed to be no other explanation for the Godwin remark, some took the observation as an effort to remind the voters that Wilder is black.
Then last week, in Byrd’s letter endorsing Durrette and Chichester, he gave no reason for his endorsement except that the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run as teams, and that the lieutenant governor stands a “heartbeat 1 away” from the governorship.
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