Northern Virginia Edge Could Be Pivotal for Obama

Scott Conroy, RCP
SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- For President Obama's organizational machine in Virginia, Tuesday's jam-packed statewide schedule was typical.There was a voter registration drive outside a Bonnie Raitt concert in Charlottesville, an afternoon phone bank at the Hopewell library just south of Richmond, and a volunteer recruitment meeting at a private home in this distant suburb of Washington, D.C.All told, the Obama campaign listed on its website 62 separate events throughout the Commonwealth that day.Recent weeks have seen regular openings of new Obama field offices across Virginia (there are...

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