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StrictlyRockers

(3,855 posts)
16. You mean goes for PRESIDENT Obama again, right?
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 04:00 PM
Aug 2012

Don't all US Presidents get the honorific President before their last names? Or was that honor intended only for the white Presidents?

Maybe Virginia will vote for PRESIDENT Obama by more than SIX (6!) percentage points this time!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia,_2008

The 2008 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 4, 2008, which was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Virginia was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 6.3% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a blue state, despite the fact that initially Virginia was a swing state that both campaigns targeted heavily in 2008 and that Virginia was once one of the most reliable red states in the nation. The financial meltdown, the changing demographics, and the population increases in voter rich Northern Virginia gave Obama the edge as he was projected the winner in the Old Dominion State. It was the first time in over 40 years that Virginia voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon B. Johnson, in his landslide election victory of 1964.

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