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Virgil Goode campaigns for president against the odds

Goode has arrived now on Main Street in downtown Lynchburg and is distressed that he can’t find some of his campaign buttons. “I only have 500 — I can’t afford to lose them.” He keeps his campaign pamphlets in a side jacket pocket, the easier to thrust them out of nowhere at sometimes stunned strangers who don’t recognize him. “Here, take these,” he says to a young woman, handing her two pencils with his name on them. “Those are from my old congressional campaign. . . . But keep ’em anyway.”