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September 01, 2004

Buzz: Why Virginia Is Tilting Kerry

Check out Benjamin Wallace-Wells' excellent new piece about battleground Virginia in Washington Monthly. Rather than speculate about Virginia's battleground status and conduct phoners from his desk with the pundits, Wallace-Wells actually got in his car and drove around Virginia to talk to real human beings about what they think about the 2004 election.

"Six months ago, Larry Sabato, the esteemed University of Virginia political scientist, told reporters that Kerry was a dead duck in the state. Now, he tells me, Virginia is still Bush's to lose--but Bush may very well lose it," Wallace-Wells writes in his lush description of Virginia and its current dead heat climate.

Speaking of Virginia ...

The August 28 edition of the National Journal has this buzz in the Democratic Insiders Verbatim/Inside Washington column:

"Virginia will be close."

"The big surprise is that there will be no surprise 'blues' turning 'red.' This is John Kerry's election to lose, in spite of all the pre-election punditry otherwise."

Posted by laura at September 1, 2004 05:28 PM

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