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By JOHN GOOLRICK
I am not trying to make a career of bashing The Washington Post, but, unfortunately, that newspaper’s coverage of Virginia politics continues to be abyssmal.
Last week the Post ran a front page story with a headline that proclaimed Virginia Republicans are defecting to the gubernatorial candidacy of Mary Sue Terry, a Democrat.
The accompanying story sought to give credence to the headline but, to put it bluntly, came nowhere near accomplishing that goal.
First let me say that I do not believe The Washington Post can produce any significant number of people who are really Republicans and intend to vote for Ms. Terry for governor instead of GOP nominee George Allen. The so-called Republicans cited in the recent article are not Republicans, even though they may have given money to some Republican candidates in the past.
The fact of the matter is that most of those listed by the Post are Northern Virginia speculators whose overriding interest in the political process is to do favors for various candidates they think will win and may be helpful to them later on.
Thus, in plunking down hard cash for Ms. Terry they merely are trading in the Mary Sue Terry futures market in the belief that after Tuesday. Nov. 2 she will be an immensely more valuable commodity as Governor-elect of Virginia than she is now.
That is simply the way these people do business. It has nothing to do with political philosophy as exemplified by the Democratic or Republican or any other parties since their bedrock philosophy is to look out for their own interests.
Since they obviously believe polls
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