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By MARY K. BLEWITT
Arundel Newspapers State Writer
In the heat and humidity characteristic of southern summers, a station wagon traced its way along the map of Virginia. Stopping at grocery stores, gas stations, and small community gatherings, Sen. L. Douglas Wilder introduced himself as the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in 1985.
Wilder’s grassroots tour, in which he traveled to every county and independent city and town in the Commonwealth, was dubbed “insane” by many Democrats and Republicans alike. Most felt that he was wasting his time on the scarcely populated areas of the state. But the high-risk campaign style was characteristic of Wilder’s raee for statewide office four years ago and characteristic of a man who has spent much of his life fighting the odds.
Widely-quoted political analyst Larry Sabato said in December of 1984 that the black candidate’s chances of victory over Republican Del. John H. Chichester were “one in a hundred.”
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