We can only hope. Actually Virginia didn't have much of a chance anyway. She can't really raise any money and once her true beliefs are made public, she'll have a hard time even getting invites on the rubber-chicken circuit. There is a whole contingent in Stokes and Surry counties ready to make sure everyone knows Virginia's true stripes.
I would guess the 5th district race would now come down to Snyder, Robinson, and Broyhill. Snyder is going to have a tough time beating back reminders of his "carpetbagger" campaing tactics against Dole when it is made widely known that he doesn't even live in the district. I like him, but the rumblings on the street are that he has a tough row to hoe.
I know almost nothing about Broyhill. Can anyone fill me in?
Broyhill is running solely on the name. He is, of course, the son of former Congressman and Senator Jim Broyhill, and has $$. This isn't the same district his dad represented, which was in the adjacent (old) 10th to the west. Besides his dad, he claims to have Jesse Helms serving as an honorary co-chair, and seems to bridge the gap between the old establishment Mountain Republicans embodied by his family name, and the Helms Republicans. He wouldn't be such a bad selection on that, but we need Vernon Robinson in the House. Broyhill ought to return to the 10th and wait for Cass Ballenger's retirement (and at 77, I can't see him remaining much longer -- he succeeded Jim Broyhill when he was appointed to the Senate), I think that's a better bet.