Mark Warner's Five-Year Plan. (Case Study).(Virginia governor)(Statistical Data Included)

How a wealthy Democrat capitalized on internal Republican squabbling to capture the governorship of conservative-leaning Virginia

Nov. 6 BROUGHT about a mixed blessing for both parties in Virginia. Democrat Mark Warner's victory for governor was an important milestone for the party that had been out of power for eight years, but so were races for the state House of Delegates, where Republicans expanded a thin margin into a nearly two-to-one majority. A Democrat won a tight victory for lieutenant governor while a Republican won a landslide triumph in the attorney general