Rep. Robert Goodlatte withstood a challenge from tea party-backed Karen Kwiatkowski on Tuesday to claim theRepublican nomination for his 11th term in Congress from the 6th District. <\/p>\n
Goodlatte captured 66 percent of the districts vote, which includes Lynchburg, Amherst County and part of Bedford County. Just 7 percent of registered voters turned out. <\/p>\n
Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force officer who lives in the Shenandoah Valley, attracted small but enthusiastic crowds to campaign rallies where she aligned herself with Ron Pauls brand of libertarianism. <\/p>\n
Goodlatte relied on his incumbency, refusing to debate Kwiatkowski. <\/p>\n
He will face Democrat Andy Schmookler, a Rockingham County author, in the November election. <\/p>\n
The 6th District contest was slightly closer than two other Virginia primaries Tuesday in which incumbent Republican members of the House of Representativesfaced challengers. <\/p>\n
Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Virginia Beach, captured 90 percent of the vote againstR. M. Bonnie Girard in the 4th District. <\/p>\n
Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Richmond and House majority leader, was renominated with 79 percent of the vote over Floyd Bayne in the 7th District. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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