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and Terry, but declined to cho jse between Baliles and Durrette.
Saying both candidates had the basic competence to run the affairs of the state, the editorial noted each had a “powerful liability.” Durrette, said the Roanoke paper, promotes the key issues on the far right agenda. Indeed, Durrette appeared to have moved farther to the right " as the campaign progressed, supporting supervised prayer in public schools and opposing abortion even if one of his own daughters were made pregnant by a rapist.
On the other hand, said the editorial, Baliles “represents the alarming outbreak of tepidity in modem politics.” This tepidity, of course, was due in part to Baliles’ awareness of the dangers of wandering into the political minefield of positive issues, and in part to his reserved and therefore unexciting personal political style.
But perhaps one of the major contributing factors to the
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