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Poll: Obama Opens Lead Over McCain in Battleground Virginia
posted 4:54 pm Wed October 01, 2008 - RICHMOND, Va.
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A new poll shows Democrat Barack Obama (web|news|bio) has a solid lead over Republican John McCain (web|news|bio) in the presidential race in Virginia.
A CNN-Time poll of 684 likely Virginia voters conducted Sunday through Tuesday shows 53 percent support Obama while 44 percent backed McCain.
The survey included Monday's unsettling Wall Street meltdown.
The results are comfortably outside the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
It marks the first time any independent telephone survey of randomly selected voters has shown either candidate with a clear lead in the race for Virginia's 13 electoral votes.
Virginia last backed a Democrat for president in 1964.
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