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ued, even though the senators who said economic times would get worse were proven right and the economic forecasts issued by the Gilmore administration were far off the mark.
No matter. With Republicans now firmly in control of both state legislative branches—something likely to still be the case after November— the social conservatives who have taken control of much of the party’s apparatus wanted to test their powers to control nomination of some party candidates.
Now, in the aftermath of their failure, there are calls from many leaders of the right wing of the GOP in Virginia to require party registration in order for anyone to participate in the nominating process whether by conventions or primaries.
Such calls were provoked by the obvious fact that many persons who consider themselves independents, and even a number of Democrats, participated in the primary elections to vote for Chichester, Norment and Potts.
The chairman of the Spotsylvania Republican Party expressed outrage about the incumbent senators not only sending different mailers to Republicans and nonRepublicans, but emphasizing in their advertising that the primary elections were “open,” meaning any registered voter could participate.
While many states have party registration, it has been
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