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...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...
...Virginia: Hand to Hand Combat, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Both campaigns expect a record-breaking turnout in Virginia, which has added more than 500,000 new voters to the rolls in the past year. The Obama campaign has worked particularly hard to try to win Virginia, which, as has often been said, has not elected a Democrat for President since Lyndon Johnson...
...Democrats have had a particular focus on suburban voters, new voters and southern voters in traditionally Republican areas. They are expecting hand-to-hand, door-to-door combat. Says Jared Leopold, Virginia's communications director for the Democratic party's coordinated campaign: "We are expecting a very close election. [Democratic Senator Jim Webb] won by less than 10,000 votes across Virginia. He won by less than one-half of a percentage point. [Democratic Governor Mark Warner] won by only five points...
...Democratic effort has, among other things, been sharpening its focus on fast-growing areas in Virginia such as Fairfax, Fredericksburg, Stafford, Charlottesville and the Richmond suburbs, Leopold says. "Often times new voters who move in to an area are more open-minded to Democratic messages," he says. The Obama-Biden ticket has made at least eight visits to the southwest and south side of Virginia, hoping to win support from traditional Republican areas. "Obama and Biden have focused on growing areas and areas that are traditionally not Democratic in order to send a message that this election is not about...