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By JOHN GOOLRICK
By the time you read this Gov. Doug Wilder may already have indicated whether he will seek the U.S. Senate seat in 1994 now held by Charles S. Robb.
My guess is he will, but if he doesn’t I can always use the excuse that throughout his political career Wilder has been politically unpredictable.
If he does opt to run, a key fact will be whether he indicates from the git-go he’ll seek the Democratic nomination either by primary or convention or leaves enough wiggle room to run as an independent should, he decide that course is more feasible.
It says here that Wilder could not win a convention battle against Robb, and his best bet would be in a primary. You can bet though, that Robb will want a convention for a number of reasons, not the least of them being he could probably muster a moderateconservative coalition to control it.
Beyond that, however, Robb must cringe at the thought of a primary battle against a man who admittedly despises him, thinks he’s unfit, to be a U.S. Senator and would undoubtedly from the start toss the kitchen sink at him, including dredging up all the old allegations about partying and womanizing at certain v Virginia Beach parties where illegal substances were' allegedly used frequently. /
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would attract the kind of intense media interest he would prefer to avoid since the nomination scrap would likely be anything but an issue-oriented campaign.
Yet Wilder has not yet closed the door on running as an independent, perhaps thinking that in a three-way race featuring Robb as the Democratic nominee, Oliver North as the probable Republican be Robb’s worst nightmare come
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