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says, "A lot of it is habit. And a lot of it is what the rules are in a given state about how to get on the ballot."
"I hit it at exactly the right time, in terms of the public mood… It was a kind of anti-politician year," he adds. "So all of those things came together. And they will in other states, from time to time. But I don't think it's going to just swamp the parties. I think the parties will respond to this and absorb it."
Would he run again, if he weren't term-limited out? "I don't think so," he says. "This is intense, and I'm working it really hard, and I'll be ready for a break… I think eight years is long enough." King, who was born in Virginia, says he has no regrets about the job he did. As for how he would sum it up: "If you were going to carve it on a gravestone, I guess it ought to say… 'He didn't do bad for a boy from away.'
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