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Virginia Is Unexpected Battleground

 

Published 10/17/2008 by Michael D. Shear and Amy Gardner at Wash Post Elections

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain will take different messages to different audiences in different parts of Virginia over the next two days, but they will have the same goal in mind: to urge their supporters to spend the final stretch of the campaign fighting for every vote they can find. (link)

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