Virginia Is For Lovers Of Obama
FNC's VA exits:
Among black voters, Obama won 92%.
Among white voters, Obama won 39% to McCain's 60%. In '04, Pres. Bush won white voters by more than 30%.
Among young voters, Obama won 60%.
Brandeis prof. Peniel Joseph: "Virginia, the cradle of Confederacy... a new demographic. If the voting rights act and the Civil Rights movement interrupted the New Deal Coalition. Forty years later there's a new multi-racial coalition that's really headed by an African-American."
George Mason prof. Richard Norton Smith added: "If Republicans want to take Virginia back, they need to stop talking about a 'Real Virginia'" (PBS).
And looking ahead: Ex-WH adviser David Gergen, on the 11pm ET poll closings: "It is the bewitching hour. ... Wouldn't it be particularly fitting if Hawaii was the state to put him over?" (CNN).
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