Register 100 Va. voters, meet Obama - maybe
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By BOB LEWIS
AP Political Writer
Published: July 11, 2008
RICHMOND, Va. - Register 100 Virginia voters, presumably those who will vote Democratic, and win a chance to get face time with Barack Obama.
That sort of campaign activity is rarely seen before Labor Day in Virginia and never in presidential elections.
But with Virginia in the new role of swing state, it’s a sign of changing times that Obama and Republican John McCain are fighting it out in Virginia’s July heat.
Richmond Mayor Doug Wilder, who became the nation’s first elected black governor in 1990, inaugurated the Democratic voter registration effort Friday. The Obama goal is to register 151,000 new voters by the Oct. 6 deadline.
It’s a follow-up on a January surge of 23,500 new voter registrations in two weeks before the deadline for the February primary.
It was part of the surge for Obama that led to his landslide primary victory.
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