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Scorecard: Team Obama winning, 2,000,000 to Minus 344,000
The Latest on Air America — By GottaLaff In addition to these states , Virginia added 49,000 new voter registrations in August , thanks to the Obama campaign: With time running out on its push to register thousands of new voters in Virginia, the Obama campaign is picking up the pace. State election officials told the campaign Friday that 49,000 new voters signed up in August, a sharp increase from the 36,500 who signed up in July and the 28,000 who registered in June. The campaign had predicted that its August numbers could lag given the difficulty of reaching residents during vacation ...

Saturday Reading: Fun Steve is dead
Ben Smith's Blog — Fun Steve is dead. (Press-savvy Steve lives.) McCain-Palin draw big crowds. Obama's voter reg continues apace in Virginia. Halperin bellwether Reba Shimansky — like two other Giuliani Dems whose opinions I got today — hates Palin. Biden's hometown paper raises questions about a real estate transaction. Reed Hundt wonders who's trying to shut down Troopergate. (Hint: Palin's friends.) An AP must-read suggests Palin has governed as less of a social ...

Virginia Adds Many New Voters
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is "very much on track toward its goal of signing up 150,000 new voters" in Virginia "by the early October voter registration deadline, on top of the 142,000 new voters who registered during primary season," according to the Washington Post. ...

Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... campaign very much on track toward its goal of signing up 150,000 new voters by the early October voter registration deadline, on top of the 142,000 new voters who registered during primary season. (snip) Nationally, more than 2 million Democrats have been added to the rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation, according to the Associated Press. Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states during the same period. Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/06/o...