Poll: Obama opens 9 point lead over McCain in Va.

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http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/NEWS01/810020325/1002

RICHMOND — Democrat Barack Obama has opened a solid lead over Republican John McCain in Virginia, a state that last backed a Democrat for president in 1964, according to a poll out Wednesday.

A CNN-Time poll of 684 likely Virginia voters conducted Sunday through Tuesday shows 53 percent of those surveyed backed Obama while 44 percent backed McCain.

Monday's unsettling Wall Street meltdown occurred in the midst of the telephone interviews with randomly selected voters statewide.

The head-to-head results are comfortably outside the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 4 points.

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1. Key-rist!!!! That's some great news.

I'm sure the GOP and their friends in the election system industry have been prepared to steal a few key states. But if we can add places like SC, GA, and AZ to the mix, there's no way they can rig all those elections.