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...prevalent interpretation is that Wilder was forced to eke out such a narrow victory only because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton in the battle for Lieutenant Governor. What gives piquancy to this comparison is that Beyer, a Volvo dealer and political neophyte, was running against the widow of a former Governor. "Wilder would have won a victory similar to Beyer's if he had been white," contends Sabato. But this...
...news exit poll found that one-third of the Virginia voters considered abortion rights the foremost issue of the campaign. They proved it by electing as governor Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, a pro- choice advocate. They proved it by electing as lieutenant-governor the underdog Donald S. Beyer, Jr., an automobile salesman who ran on a pro-choice platform...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...Virginia contest focused on abortion asmuch as race, with Wilder emphasizing hispro-choice views in an attempt to downplay hisrace with the voters of the Southern state. Theissue seemed to spill over to the lieutenantgovernor's race, as well, as pro-choice DemocratDon Beyer defied the pre-election polls to score avictory...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...