Word: virginia
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...Race is the elephant in the room of the 2008 campaign. In West Virginia's primary, one out of every four Hillary Clinton voters actually admitted to pollsters that race was a factor in their vote; that may be an Appalachian outlier, but even in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio the figure was a troubling 1 in 10. It's a tribute to America's racial progress that a biracial man born before Jim Crow died could come this close to the presidency, but if you believe that contemporary America is color-blind, you probably also believe the Georgia Congressman...
...conditions is a measure of character. That?s what it takes for me to choose a candidate, facing an uncertain world with insufficient data. Some can say what they?ll do under pressure; others have demonstrated what they did under the intense heat of reality. Troy Hammond, Ashburn, Virginia...
...interviews were conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Sept. 7-9, 2008. The Michigan, Missouri and Virginia surveys have an error margin of 3 percentage points, while New Hampshire's is 3.5 percentage points...
...VIRGINIA TIME/CNN poll: MCCAIN 50, OBAMA 46 2004 election results: BUSH 54, KERRY...
...much as 20 points. For months, McCain badly trailed in this group--a warning sign, since George W. Bush won among white women in 2004. But a new CNN/TIME/Opinion Research poll reveals McCain has opened up double-digit leads among this group in the swing states of Virginia, Missouri and Michigan. Charollet Schworer, a retired third-grade teacher from Kentucky who voted twice for Bill Clinton, traveled to Lebanon, Ohio, in a Windbreaker patterned with the American flag. "I sat there, tears rolling down my face, watching my TV," she says of Palin's speech at the Republican Convention...