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Virginia’s Primary

February 12, 2008 - 8:13 pm - by Richard Miniter

I voted in the Oakridge precinct of Arlington County, Virginia, a few minutes before the polls closed at 7 PM. The energy in the school gymnasium was clearly with Obama. The young professionals on line couldn’t contain their excitement and were actually talking about voting for the “first black president.” The only blacks in the room were the school teachers running the polls.

Arlington is Obama territory. Young, white, highly educated and comparatively wealthy.

The only Republican (I presume) on line with me was a soldier in his BDUs, boots and heavy-looking backpack. He wasn’t talking.

One of the poll workers told me Democratic turnout was much higher than in any primary they could remember. As for the Republicans? 2004 was higher in that precinct, I was told.

All day long, I was hearing from Republican friends. They were asking how they should send a message to McCain: by voting for Huckabee or by voting for Thompson (who is out of the race but still on the ballot.) Of course, this is not a statistically valid sample–but it reveals some unease among conservatives in the Old Dominion. McCain should wonder why they still want to send him a message when most of the media has all but handed the race to McCain?

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  1. 1. BLOC

    Interesting. Glenn Reynolds (“Instapundit”) calls attention to a video by Penn Jillette which suggests why Hillary is dead meat and why Obama will be our next president.

    It’s purely anæcdotal but compelling (at least to me).

    February 13, 2008 - 1:03 am   Link to this Comment