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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Gertrude Stein once said of Oakland, Calif. “There’s no there, there.” presumably meaning the city has no distinctive character like its neighbor, San Francisco, across the bay.
If she were alive, Stein might characterize the three way Virginia race for U.S. Senate in the same terms.
The campaign, if can truly be called one, has not yet and is unlikely to deal with any discussion of substantive issues facing the state and nation.
Instead it has been marked by an endless procession of name calling on all sides that seems destined to get even uglier, if possible, as the days dwindle down toward election day in less than three week.
On the surface, Democratic Senator Charles S. Robb’s chances of reelection seem to have grown brighter over the past week or so.
Black activists in increasing numbers have been endorsing him after former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder pulled out of the race, President Clinton has' finally started to look presidential in his foreign policy dealings with situations in Haiti and along the Iraq-Kuwait border and Robb’s chief rival, Republican Oliver North, has been saying some strange things, perhaps as a result
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