Virginia was a major victory for Democrats in 2008. A state that hadn’t gone Democratic since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, President Obama won Virginia by more than six points, which confirmed what the party had argued about the state for some time: demographic and economic changes in the northern part of the state had started moving the state away from a conservative bedrock in presidential elections to a legitimate swing state. Unfortunately for Democrats, a new poll nows it swinging the other way.
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