BY: SAM HAGEDORN
The Presidential race in Virginia is close. With 2.5 million votes counted, Barack Obama is separated from John McCain by less than 13,000 votes. However, the results from Northern Virginia should give Obama the win.
Many residents of Fairfax county commute to work in the District of Columbia. These residents, mocked by a McCain campaign as not being part of “real Virginia,” tend to vote more Democratically than the rest of the state. Of the precincts in Fairfax county, only a quarter have reported so far. That’s a lot of uncounted votes, which should give Obama at least 50,000 more votes.
But then again, the conventional wisdom might be completely off — John McCain might win some of the suburbs of D.C. But things do not look good for the McCain campaign in Virginia.
