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Since the fight against drugs was a major part of Marshall Coleman’s successful Republican primary effort and since Coleman is a former attorney general, he can give Benedetti some assistance in taking on Ms. Terry.
Coleman will undoubtedly tell his running mate to come out swinging and to charge that Ms. Terry’s legal operation has been at times amateurish and resulted in criticism from members of her own party.
How that will wash with the electorate
is highly uncertain since polls indicate Ms. Terry remains popular and is perceived as doing a good job.
Then, too, most voters aren’t lawyers and have little insight into how the state’s law firm works and whether its top occupant is doing what should be done on their behalf or not.
Ms. Terry certainly won the hearts of some conservatives when she said she was prepared to defend the right of Virginia Military Institute to remain an all-male bastion. And though some feminists might not appreciate that stand, they’re not likely to desert her in drove for a conservative Republican equally prepared to keep women out of VMI.
Outside the Richmond area, Benedetti is little known and the only way to build name identity, since candidates in statewide elections can hardly go door to door, is through the mass media.
If paid for, that kind of exposure has a very high price tag. Some of it, though, will be free since newspapers and radio and television stations do assign reporters to cover statewide elections.
The rub is, that the lion’s share of the media attention goes to the Governor’s race. And the battle for second spot between Eddy Dalton,
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