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By JOHN GOOLRICK
The bizarre twists and turns that have marked Virginia politics these past few years may make it possible this year for those who don’t want either Charles Robb or Oliver North in the U.S. Senate to vote early and often against them.
Robb, the incumbent, is in a three-way primary race for the Democratic Senate nomination. Republicans will choose between North and Jim Miller at a Richmond convention a week or so earlier. I If no suitable independent comes forth should North win the nomination, them some Republicans who detest North and don’t want Robb might be tempted to go into the Democratic primary and vote for either State Sen. Virgil Goode or Sylvia Clute. Since there is no party registration in Virginia, anybody who wants to vote in the primary just has to show up.
Republicans who don’t want either Robb or North might figure that by nominating Goode (or less likely, Clute) they would have at least a candidate with no whiff of personal scandal to vote for in the fall.
Many who felt Jim Miller was gaining some momentum were discouraged when a campaign ploy to cast light on North’s treament for emotional problems blew up in his face at a press conference when he said he had consulted a psychiatrist for a mood disorder of some kind.
That incident may have been the straw that broke the Miller campaign’s credibility and put the North
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