Dems Encircle Vital Virginia

Clinton pushing hard in state thought to favor Obama
By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 7, 2008 12:38 PM CST
Dems Encircle Vital Virginia
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., addresses the media at her national headquarters Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008, in Arlington, Va. Clinton and Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama dug in Wednesday for an extended battle for the Democratic presidential nomination...   (Associated Press)

Forget Yorktown and Manassas: Virginia will weigh in on a new war Tuesday, as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton make the state the next key Democratic battleground. Watchers had thought Obama would sweep the so-called Potomac Primary—in Virginia, Maryland, and DC—but Clinton is looking for a crucial stand in the Mother of Presidents, the Washington Post reports.

One-quarter of Dems are black, and the primary will see many highly educated, upper-income, and independent voters; Obama is also aided by support from Gov. Tim Kaine. But Clinton sees strengths in growing exurbs and in under-employed white voters in the rural southwest. One pollster noted “there is no primary history” in Virginia, which may prove “a void of unknowns.” (More Hillary Clinton stories.)

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