The Washington Post editorial page also thinks Potts just might benefit from the frustration people have over the tenor of the governor’s race.
COULD ANYTHING be less central to this year’s gubernatorial election in Virginia than the twang and timbre of one of the candidate’s voices? Yet, somehow, the race between the two major contenders has degenerated into a venomous little exchange over the accent of former attorney general Jerry W. Kilgore, a Republican from the hill country of southwest Virginia, and his campaign’s insistence (despite slim evidence) that Democratic Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is impugning it. If the two candidates sorely wish to encourage a protest vote for a maverick third-party challenger — in this case state Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr. (R-Winchester), who is likely to appear on the ballot as an independent — they need only persist in this vein for a few more months.
UPDATE: Roanoke Times mocks Kilgore’s twang strategy.