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  Can Va.'s Davis Team Divorce Themselves From Politics?
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Last EditedArmyDem  Nov 10, 2007 07:43am
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News DateSaturday, November 10, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionHe's Out of the Race. She Lost. What Now?

By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 10, 2007; Page C01

Theirs is a partnership of politics and ambition that formed a decade ago and grew into something more.

He was a powerful congressman. She was a fledgling state candidate with promise. A master politician with a national profile, he took her under his wing and found his life's love.

They both craved the game, and they both sought power. When he moved on to the Senate, she could run for his seat, or perhaps a statewide office in Virginia. Together, they made a life centered around these ambitions.

And then Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, the seven-term Republican from Fairfax County, decided last month that his dream job, the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, had slipped out of reach. And on Tuesday, the Democratic tide that rose in Northern Virginia swept out of office his wife, state Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, a 10-year incumbent.

The rising arc of the Davis brand fell back to earth. Elections are cruel that way.

Now, the man who first came to the Hill as a Senate page and became a leading advocate in Congress for the affairs of the District, suddenly has to contemplate a future away from it all. He probably won't run for reelection unless he concludes it is a path to the Senate in 2012, say his associates.
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