Word: virginia
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...winning the presidency, Obama swept numerous swing-states, including Ohio, Florida, and Colorado. He is the first Democrat to win Virginia since President Johnson...
...says. Nearby, Marlise Radix, an Irish immigrant who, with her family, became a citizen to vote for Obama, took photos of chanting voters while children threw red and blue balloons to one another below the cheering crowd. Outside the ballroom, fans called friends on cell phones: "We won Virginia - can you believe it?" a young caller exclaimed, jumping up and down...
Democrats Gain in Senate, 9:40 p.m. E.T. Democrats may not win a 60 seat filibuster-proof senate majority, but they will definitely pick up a few new seats. Former Virginia governor Mark Warner, as widely expected, is already projected to win the commonwealth's seat being vacated by the retiring John Warner (no relation). More significantly, freshman Senator Elizabeth Dole has lost her North Carolina seat to Democratic challenger Kay Hagan; Dole's last-minute attack ad tying Hagan to an atheist PAC appeared to have backfired. The drag of President Bush continued in New Hampshire, where former governor...
...Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey, giving him a total of 102 electoral votes thus far. McCain, for his part, has been projected to win South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma, leaving him with a total of 34 electoral votes thus far. Key battleground states like Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida remain too close to call, as well as Indiana, a usually reliably red state that Obama has spent a lot of time in during the campaign...
...Virginia: Obama's "Houdini" Project, 8:30 a.m. E.T. Amid the long lines seen during early morning voting across Virginia, Obama volunteers have begun to put a special, research-driven, get-out-the vote campaign called the "Houdini" project. It is designed to locate areas where the campaign can get more voters to the polls. Stationed at polling places, Obama volunteers check voters against a database of known voters in the area, compiled through a mixture of door-to-door canvassing and publicly available information. "Names of voters get passed to an outside representative who has a targeted list," says...