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Virginia as Pivotal Swing State?

July 24th, 2008   ·   17 Comments   ·   Email This Post Email This Post   ·   URI

Early polling is showing that the race in Virginia, a state that hasn’t voted Democratic since 1964, may be very close this year.  We were just playing around with a scenario where that state could be decisive.
In this scenario, Obama maintains his lead and wins the block of states in the economically struggling upper Midwest, […]

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