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a CEO and conciliator might be more useful now in Washington than Richmond. “I’ve already been governor” he said. “What struck me, particularly when I was looking at the national race, is that there are so many issues which have had no real attention for the last seven or eight years.”
Last year Warner wrestled for months over a decision to run for president, taking exploratory trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. But in October 2006 he decided not to run, citing the need to spend more time with his wife Lisa Collis and their four daughters. This time the vote at home came back supportive. “Lisa and the girls were pretty unanimous,” he said. They'd rather have me home than in Richmond.”
Unlike Gov. Tim Kaine (D), his law school classmate and political understudy who endorses Barrack Obama for President, Warner has kept mum on a choice. “Whoever the next president’s going to be, Democrat or Republican, there’s going to be a window starting in January ‘09 to really try and make some big changes in this country,” he said. The only way change is going to come about is if there are people willing to be less partisan, less about the back-and-forth bickering, and really willing to try some bold, bold things. If I can be part of that, that’s worth the challenge.”
Virginia has not voted Democratic for president since Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 national landslide, and if Warner wins, it would be the first time since 1970 that Democrats would control both U.S. Senate seats and the Governor’s Mansion Last week, a Rasmussen poll of likely Virginia voters showed Warner with a 27 percent lead over the presumptive GOP nominee, Rep. Thomas Davis III (R-ll) of Vienna.
At the end of the day, the line was still 300-deep to greet Warner, who was clearly taking his time with each voter.
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