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pass on to his successor.
“Doug Wilder won’t be an easy target,” one of Virginia’s most prominent Republican leaders told me privately not long ago. “He knows how to go with the flow and the Democrats badly want a governor who will back whatever redistricting plan is concocted to screw Republicans.”
While the three remaining GOP candidates for governor pick each other to pieces in their primary struggle, Mr. Wilder, who locked up the nomination the moment Ms. Terry said she wouldn't run for governor, has gotten off practically unscathed except for an occasional jibe by former Virginia Attorney General.]. Marshall Coleman.
Many analysts are puzzled why one or more of the Republican aspirants haven’t Used a golden opportunity to sound some themes that can carry over into the fall campaign and create some vulnerability for Mr. Wilder.
Such themes might include the massive tax spending increases of the Robb-Baliles years and the perceived drift away from fiscal responsibility into a shadowy budget world laden with pork.
Barring such foresight, Mr. Wilder will be nominated in June by acclamation and will start his campaign unmarked by scars from intraparty warfare or Republicans’ ar
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