Voting News from your State

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I thought recent voting news from the different states might be interesting. Post some quotes or a news article describing the voting situation from your state in this thread.

I'll start off with Virginia:

No Democratic presidential candidate has won the state since 1964. But Virginia is a battleground once more -- and potentially the decisive one in a historic election.

But this year, strategists predict that if Obama takes Virginia with its 13 electoral votes, he takes the White House, possibly positioning the state at the epicenter of a historic election, the Florida or Ohio of 2008.

Foreign journalists are flying in from Australia, Japan and Venezuela, intrigued by the paradox that the onetime capital of the Confederacy could be key to electing the first African American president.

Nearly half a million new voters have registered. (Voters are not asked to declare a party when registering, so no one is sure who has the edge.)

An average of recent polls suggest Obama leads by 7 percentage points, but many here believe it could be closer -- nearly a third of Virginia voters call themselves independent.

full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-virginia29-2008oct29,0,5272958.story