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By JOHN GOOLRICK

Rappahannock News Special Writer > If there is anything I occasionally . miss about the days when I covered i Virginia politics it has to be the : glory of living through a gubernatorial election year.

In our state while elections to the House of Representatives or U.S. Senate are regarded as highly important, the stellar attraction has always been considered by journalists the odd numbered year every four years when Virginians elect a governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

I don’t know why that's been the case so long. I just know it was true when I first started covering state politics in the early 1960s and from all I am told it’s just as true today. Maybe it’s because citizens of Vir

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