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Support from the religious right was crucial in making Oliver North the Republican candidate to oppose Democratic Senator Charles Robb in Virginia. Earlier this month, conservative Christian delegates turned the Texas state convention into a whooping, roiling demonstration of their clout, forcing through the election of their candidate for party chairman and the adoption of a hard-right plank that gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush, the ex- President's son, will now have to run on. Wary moderates like Bush and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson were careful not to offend the rightists, who rolled over anybody in their way. When...
Dissatisfied with the choices of their parties (Iran-contra figure Oliver North for the Republicans and incumbent Senator Charles Robb for the Democrats), two men are mounting challenges in Virginia's Senate race. Former state attorney general J. Marshall Coleman, a Republican, is already running as an independent, and former Democratic Governor L. Douglas Wilder is expected to announce his formal candidacy soon. Virginians are now assured one of the most contentious, unpredictable campaigns in the nation...
...factious campaign, Oliver North took 55% of the vote and won Virginia's G.O.P. Senate nomination, defeating former Reagan budget director James Miller III. But the former Marine lieutenant colonel, a key Iran-contra figure, may have to face Democratic incumbent Charles Robb without total G.O.P. support. Virginia's Republican Senator John Warner had threatened to back the expected bid of former state Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, who would run as an independent, in the event of a North victory...
...Robb vehemently denies use of drugs or even being present when others used them. But last month, preparing his formal campaign launch as the Washington Post was about to publish the staff's findings, Robb drafted a six-page statement aimed at stifling the issue. "For a period of time in Virginia Beach," he conceded, "I let my guard down, and when I did, I also let Lynda down. But with Lynda's forgiveness, and God's, I put that private chapter behind me." Some voters do not see it that way. In a recent poll the man once considered...
Democrats fear there could be more revelations to come. "Their concern," says Professor Robert Holsworth of Virginia Commonwealth University, "is that the guy's a ticking bomb." Still, Robb faces weak opposition from three little-known challengers in his party's June primary. And the Clinton White House has signaled its preference for him. But even if none of his obscure challengers gathers steam, Robb is not assured of a clean shot in the general election. His longtime foe, former Governor Douglas Wilder, would like nothing better than to send Robb back to lawyering. Wilder has been grumbling that Virginians...