The Washington Post, June 17th, 2001
-- Virginia's rapidly accelerating race for governor is shaping up as a battle not so much between two candidates as between two competing portraits of one: Alexandria Democrat Mark R. Warner. His Republican rival, former state attorney general Mark L. Earley, fits securely in the tax-cutting, tough-on-crime tradition of Gov. James S. Gilmore III and U.S. Sen. George Allen, who trounced Democrats in statewide races throughout the last decade. Republicans are eager to fit Warner just as securely in the tradition of the Democrats they beat: Mary Sue Terry in 1993, Donald S. Beyer Jr. in 1997 and...
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