THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, November 2, 1994 TAG: 9411030638
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Photo essay
LENGTH: Medium: 83 lines
For months, the Senate campaign juggernaut has clung like a greasy soup stain to the lace-and-damask reputation of genteel Virginia. It will all be over in a week, and we can go back to reveling in our mountain scenery and seashore vistas. It will be a long while, though, before we go back to bragging about the Old Dominion's role as the cradle of Western Democracy.
Dave Addis \ ROBB
U.S. SEN. Charles S. Robb - escorted by his new pal, former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder - went looking for African-American voters Saturday at the annual Gold Bowl football game at Virginia Union University in Richmond.
Wilder and Robb worked the grandstand before plunging into a festive tailgate party where the unseasonably warm afternoon air was filled with the smell of fried fish and the beat of Motown.
The two Democrats sampled some three-alarm chili, posed for snapshots and autographed campaign fliers that read, ``Together we've come too far to turn back now.''
David M. Poole NORTH
U.S. SENATE candidate Oliver L. North captivated a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters at Mount Trashmore on Saturday. The Republican nominee blasted Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb and dismissed a handful of hecklers who tried to crash the rally. North, however, saved his best shot for the vice president, lambasting Al Gore for suggesting that North's supporters suffered from Down syndrome. To illustrate the point, North trotted out some supporters whose children have the congenital disease.
Alec Klein COLEMAN
NORTH AND ROBB were on J. Marshall Coleman's mind a lot Saturday. The independent candidate toured Northern Virginia; he talked about health care with a woman in Cascades. He talked about the Marine Corps with a Boy Scout in Annandale. But privately, he talked about his opponents. ``They're both fatally flawed,'' he said, sounding almost desperate as he drank a cappuccino in a Great Falls shopping center. ``The voters know that. They know I'm the alternative.''
In the final week of the campaign, his approach is markedly different from his opponents': more laughs, more family, more time for the press. Perhaps it's because he can't finance a jet-set schedule and an elaborate entourage. Or maybe he doesn't have the support of his party-ticket adversaries.
But maybe political glitz just isn't his style, either.
``I'm going to read this tomorrow and it's going to say, `Coleman campaigned in Northern Virginia Saturday.' One line, nothing else,'' he said with a grin, pretending to joke. ``I'm getting to a lot of voters out here. Listen to them. They're not happy with the other two.''
Robert Little ILLUSTRATION: BILL TIERNAN/Staff photos
Sen. Chuck Robb campaigns on the home side during the Gold Bowl.
With him is campaign worker Cecilia Garner of New Kent County.
TAMARA VONINSKI/Staff photos
Oliver North and his family drive away after a rally at Mount
Trashmore. The crowd ran alongside the Winnebago as it pulled away.
CHRISTOPHER REDDICK/Staff photos
Marshall Coleman greets potential voters at the Alexandria Market
early last Saturday.
KEYWORDS: U.S. SENATE RACE VIRGINIA CANDIDATES
CAMPAIGNING PHOTO ESSAY by CNB