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Republicans will have spirited races for the nominations for governor and attorney general and, perhaps, lieutenant governor. Democrats need worry only about a battle for the nomination for attorney general.
As you read or hear statements for various candidates vying for nominations, keep in mind everything they do is somehow designed to hone in on a very limited target audience. Once nominated they will seek to send all Virginians a message, but for now their priority is to curry favor with those relatively few thousands who will make the time and effort to attend a local mass meeting and participate in a convoluted but important democratic process that, like the narrow headwaters of a great stream, eventually swells into the pageantry of statewide elections that Virginians follow with rising interest in the autumn of every fourth year.
Editor’s note: John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now an aide to U.S. Rep. George Allen, R7th Dist. Opinions expressed are his own and not necessarily those of this newspaper.)
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