SCHAPIRO: Northam shaped events, was largely shaped by them – Bristol Herald Courier

In 2007, a future governor, Ralph Northam — who had twice voted for Republican George W. Bush for president and would consider jumping to the GOP, having been wooed with prized committee assignments in the Virginia Senate — was elected to that clubby body as a Democrat, winning with a candidacy that then-Gov. Tim Kaine said perfectly matched a Chesapeake Bay-spanning district that embraced city, suburb and countryside.

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