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left, or at least none willing to entertain such a race.
Yet there will be Democratic challengers against all five incumbent Republican members of the House of Representatives, something that hasn’t happened in many years.
By contrast, the GOP has no-one running against any of the five incumbent Democratic incumbents, something some regard as a further indication of the party’s lack of leadership at the top in the wake of last year’s third consecutive statewide sweep.
Goldman is already going around the state rallying the troops for next year’s redistricting and the Gene: J Assembly elections that will follow.
That may win him favor with Democrats in general and the House of Delegates conservative leadership in particular since the GOP is getting within striking • distance of House control.
Goldman is telling Democrats that demographic changes in the state are giving Republicans a bigger potential for victory and that complaceny or lack of unity could result in loss of control of one of the two legislative chambers.
That kind of straight talk is likely to further the resolve of the Democratic majority in the legislature, backed up by a Democratic gover
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