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Why Virginia Worries the GOP
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 07, 2005 06:02pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican Jerry Kilgore is locked in a tight race for governor. The outcome of Tuesday's election will either reassure the party—or cause real concern about the 2006 midterm elections
By MIKE ALLEN/FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA
Posted Monday, Nov. 07, 2005
Jerry Kilgore, a Republican candidate for Governor whose mountain twang kept him out of his own ads for much of the campaign, was looking starched and chipper Sunday as he shook hands outside the Falls Church, a 273-year-old Episcopal congregation near Washington that has a number of Bush Administration luminaries in its pews. Falls Church is a Democratic oasis, but these were his people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked out the side after receiving Communion and headed to McLean Bible Church, a non-denominational mega-church where he was greeted with applause at the Welcome Center.
Even for Election Eve, Kilgore is unusually nervous. On Tuesday night, he will either be Governor-elect of the Old Dominion, one of the nation's most reliably Republican states, or poster boy for his national party's woes heading into next year's mid-term elections. "We can't even win in Virginia?" Republicans will be asking themselves if the former state attorney general does not pull it out in his neck-and-neck race against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Timothy M. Kaine. |
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