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  Bill Bolling to exit Virginia governor's race
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Last EditedTX DEM  Nov 28, 2012 09:54am
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News DateWednesday, November 28, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionVirginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is expected to drop out of next year’s gubernatorial race Wednesday morning, leaving Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli with a clear path to the GOP nomination next year, two Virginia Republicans tell POLITICO.

Bolling, now in his second term as lieutenant governor, was widely seen as the underdog against the conservative Cuccinelli, whose supporters engineered a move to change the 2013 nominating process from a primary to a convention. Conservatives typically dominate Virginia GOP conventions.

Bolling was Mitt Romney’s Virginia campaign chairman and many in the state assumed the lieutenant governor would get a face-saving appointment in Washington had Romney won the presidency.

But with the move to a convention and Romney’s loss, Bolling appears out of options.
It was “a recognition of how difficult it would be to win the nomination,” said one Virginia Republican source about Bolling’s move.
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