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Last Updated on Monday, 17 December 2007 01:19 Written by rslcpol Monday, 17 December 2007 01:19
THE PRESIDENTIAL
election campaign has people pondering “the bluing of Virginia.” Could a Democrat claim the commonwealth’s 12 electoral votes next November? Even if it’s a woman named Clinton? What a concept. Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, but it has elected two Democratic governors in a row, and five of the last seven. And these are not your old, Byrd-style, pay-as-you-go, status-quo-loving Virginia Democrats, but progressive Democrats who offered voters just the right touch of Virginia conservatism to get elected.