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...Thom Robb is a reconstructed racist. He calls himself the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eschewing the hoary title of Imperial Wizard. Indeed, the lower ranks have been defanged as well. There are no more Grand Dragons, no more Great Titans. Gone too are the robes and hoods. "We don't hate blacks," declares Robb, who assumed the leadership in 1989. "We just love whites...
RICHMOND -- DOUGLAS WILDER's scuttling of his independent Senate candidacy in Virginia probably saves the seat for incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb. But wait -- there's a flip side: Democrats may lose two tight House races in which they were counting on a large turnout of blacks voting for Wilder to translate into votes for regular Democrats lower down on the ticket...
SENATOR CHARLES ROBB...
...Massachusetts senator is only one of several high-profile Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Charles Robb (D-Va.) and House Speaker Thomas Foley (D-Wash.), facing stiff challenges from Republicans this year. This is a national race now, and record amounts of money are likely to be spent...
...conservative Christian activists can provide candidates with a base of enthusiastic supporters. In Virginia's fractious Senate race, a four-way contest in which the winner will not need 50% of the vote, they have helped give Oliver North a real shot at the seat held by Democrat Charles Robb. "North is constructing a coalition of the pious and the poff," says political scientist Robert Holsworth of Virginia Commonwealth University. "He's much more effective at it than anyone thought he would...