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less populist campaigning that has played a major role in enabling him to close the gap.
Then, too, the prospect of a down-to-thewire race gives new hope and energy to thousands of Allen supporters who were demoralized earlier by constant media reports that seemed to provide a coronation for Ms. Terry four and five months before voters went to the polls.
The message is that despite forecasts in many quarters that this year’s statewide races would take a back seat to the 1994 election for U.S. Senate, there will be a race after all — and very likely an exciting one.
The Washington Post, always the last to get the word about such things, is still implying that Ms. Terry’s victory is inevitable, but as I have contended from the beginning it’s going to be close.
In fact, the outcome could well be decided by a group of people who got together recently and chartered a Virginia chapter of the United We Stand America movement, the Ross Perot folks. In doing so organizers indicated, though they do not call themselves a political party, they intend to do whatever may be needed to influence the outcome of the state’s gubernatorial election.
And since Perot got a lot of votes in Virginia last fall, politicians seeking office who don’t try to court the Perotista element do so at their own peril.
(Editor s note: John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now an aide to Republican 1st District Congressman Herbert Bateman. Opinions expressed are his qwn, and not necessarily those of this newspaper.)
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