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Three Democrats triumphed in traditionally Republican Virginia, and the party crowed. A Republican Governor waltzed to re-election in predominantly Democratic New Jersey, and the G.O.P. cheered. Incumbent mayors, regardless of party, breezed to victories just about everywhere and were smugly confident...
Democrats got their own back in Virginia, where they won a sweep of the races for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and attorney general. Governor-elect Gerald Baliles, a lackluster former attorney general, is a protégé of popular current Democratic Governor Chuck Robb, who was barred by law from another term. Some suggested that Baliles was simply a stand-in for Robb, Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law and a founder of the conservative Democratic Leadership Council...
...state-wide office in the South since Reconstruction, and it made Wilder, 54, the highest-ranking black state official in the U.S. It was a deeply satisfying achievement for the polished lawyer who had once worked as a busboy at an all-white club frequented by Virginia legislators. New Attorney General Mary Sue Terry became Virginia's first woman to be elected to statewide office. Paul G. Kirk, the Democratic national chairman, took the results as an omen: "The unified Virginia ticket," he said, "proved that diversity within the Democratic Party can once again be a strength...
Next stop: lunch at the splendiferous Virginia Hunt Country estate of Philanthropist Paul Mellon, whose father was once Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Mellon's lunch is the smallest of all the charmed circles: fewer than two dozen guests. Later that night the couple's schedule called for a dinner at the British embassy. On Monday the couple was to make their obligatory tour of JCPenney...
...Lincoln monuments, and K Street in historic Georgetown was awash, as a giant low-pressure system moved up the Atlantic Seaboard last week, unloading ten to twelve inches of rain into the James, Potomac and Roanoke river basins. But while Washington was getting its feet wet, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland were devastated...