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pecting her to announce for a third term as attorney general, though it might be a way to guarantee her a nice state pension. There won’t be any guarantees at all if she decides to run for governor, particularly since some feel she may have already lost the aura of gubernatorial inevitability that once seemed to surround her.
Not only might she have trouble beating a tough Republican opponent in a general election, there is at least a 50-50 chance she will find herself in a bruising contest for the Democratic nomination.
Lt. Gov. Donald S. Beyer Jr., the underdog who won statewide office in his first elective campaign, is being urged by many supporters to go for the top spot rather than put himself in a holding pattern as lieutenant governor for four more years as Ms. Terry opted to do.
In politics, as in crap shooting, “When you’re hot you’re hot, when you’re not you’re not,” and Mr. Beyer has been a hot commodity in Democratic circles since he came out of nowhere in 1989.
If he chooses to stand aside and let Ms. Terry have the nomination,
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