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Will Goodlatte run alone in November Story by Chris GrahamDavid Layman isnt givin stanley mug g up on the idea that Sixth District Democrats will be able to field a challenger to Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte this fall 鈥?but its safe to say that the prospects of that happening are not looking good at this point. Our focus at this time is still on finding a candidate, said Layman, the chair of the Sixth District Democratic Committee 鈥?which has until June 13 to nominate someone to contest the seven-term incumbent.Other Democrats in the district are readily conceding the point that the party will not be in a position to place a candidate on the ballot. You are probably right 鈥?that we will not have a candidate facing Mr. Goodlatte this fall, said Tom Long, the chair of the stanley cup Augusta County Democratic Committee. The frustrating thing with this is that the chances are closer to 50 percent that we could do this this year than they have probably been in a decade or more than a decade. There are going to be some entrenched Republican members of Congress, including committee chairs, who are going to lose in November. And Bob Goodlatte could have been one of them, said Sam Garrison, a Roanoke Democrat who serves on the Sixth District Democratic Committee. You would never know stanley us unless you run somebody in a serious campaign whether the balance has shifted enough to enable a Democrat to actually win or not. I honestly believe that an articulate and reasonably well-financed candidate could beat