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In retrospect, I can’t imagine why it didn't dawn on me that Mark Earley’s smoothly targeted campaign would produce a winner in the recent Republican “superconvention" also known as a primary.
Earley went after those Christian and social conservatives most likely to take time to vote in the widely ignored primary that turned out only 168,000 voters, or roughly 5 percent, the lowest turnout for a statewide election since 1949.
Since Earley polled just 36 percent of that small vote, he does not enter the general election with any large statewide base. And yet it may be enough to build on providing he doesn’t make himself a victim of the “Mike Farris Syndrome.” To avoid that, he will have to convince thousands of
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