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Obama Sees Red in Virginia

By | 10.17.08 | 2:51 pm

ROANOKE, Va. — Sen. Barack Obama marched back into Republican territory today, speaking to 8,000 people gathered here in southwest Virginia, a conservative part of a red state that Democrats think they can win for the first time since 1964.

Obama has spent far more time in this part of More…