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Republican in presidential elections since 1968, he would join the ranks of ex-presidents. That isn’t likely to happen despite the Perot phenomenon, but McSweeney must give immediate priority to the presidential and congressional races.
Said one GOP activist pro-choice female who came away from the party’s recent state convention embittered, “Pat McSweeney may say he is going to accomodate people and win elections, but the far right put him in and the far right is going to do everything it can to control him because they consider him their boy.”
McSweeney will obviously have to find a way to mend fences with those kinds of Republicans who believe he and his followers are trying to shove them out the door. Certainly, the party’s right wing was firmly in control of the recent convention, though they wisely resisted a tempting resolution to urge Democratic Sen. Charles S. Robb to ^resign.
Meanwhile, Paul Goldman, McSweeney’s counterpart with the Democratic Party of Virginia, is clinging to his post as state chairman by the skin of his teeth. A resolution asking him to step down didn’t make
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