CROSS JUNCTION, Va. Four years ago, Virginia Democrats nominated a slow-talking, country-accented pediatrician named Ralph Northam who had been an anonymous lieutenant governor for Terry McAuliffe. Unlike McAuliffe, he sounded and talked like a rural Virginian, so he seemed harmless. Northam ran a campaign that did not have any sharp edges, and therefore, the campaign was about the hottest thing going at the time Donald Trump.
Ed Gillespie was the Republican nominee. He was the same kind of Republican who normally would have been competitive here, except that he was a political professional. Hed served in former President George Bush's administration, had been the chairman............