Will Obama win Virginia?

[Drunken Irishman]

[Tiggeroshii]

1. What's early voting at inVirginia?

[Quixote1818]

2. I would be stunned if he didn't. Now North Carolina is one that could go either way

but I even expect Obama to carry it as well.

[Swamp Rat]

3. Geauxbama!!!

[qwlauren35]

4. Where is "I Don't Know"???

You leave no room for us Chicken Little concern trolls!!! Don't shut us out. We need a place to express ourselves.

[Jennicut]

5. He will win. VA has changed a lot in 4 years. The Dems are a very stong presence there now.

The blue part of the state is way blue now (the upper half). He wins by 5 points I think. Now NC is another story. I think it will be neck and neck all night. Not a state we need but one that would be satisfying.

[electricmonk]

6. Here's an analysis of which areas to watch

"Here are five places in Virginia to watch Tuesday night to get a good sense of how the Old Dominion is swinging, and with it, perhaps the nation.

* The Northern Virginia exurbs. "Exurbs" is a fancy demographers' word for the outer suburbs. In this case, Loudoun County and Prince William County. (The inner suburbs -- Arlington and Alexandria -- are overwhelmingly Democratic.)

It's in Loudoun and Prince William that Virginia will be won or lost. Demographic changes have flipped the two formerly reliably Republican counties. Democrat Tim Kaine surprised everyone by carrying both in his 2005 race for governor, and Democrat Jim Webb managed the same trick in his 2006 upset over George Allen for the U.S. Senate.

Tell me how those counties vote and I'll wager I can tell you who won. The only problem is, the Northern Virginia localities are usually among the last to report their returns, and the point here is to figure things out earlier."

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