Virginia governor’s political limitations on stark display

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s great virtue, as the voters saw it, was that he wasn’t a career politician, but a friendly doctor who came to politics late in life. Now that same quality may be contributing to what is looking more and more like a spectacular career-ending disaster. The 59-year-old Democrat is under bone-crushing pressure from his own party to resign over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page of someone in blackface and another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe. And his efforts to quell the uproar have been seen as so clumsy and wince-inducing that they may well have made things worse. To some, his lack of political seasoning seems to be on full display.