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Obama beats McCain in Virginia: Fox

WASHINGTON
Tue Nov 4, 2008 10:57pm EST
A cameraman takes images of cut-outs of Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (L) and U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (C) during a mock U.S. election session in downtown Bucharest late November 4, 2008. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama won the Virginia presidential vote on Tuesday, defeating rival John McCain to break the state's 40-year history of backing Republicans in the race for the White House, Fox News projected.

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Obama, an Illinois senator who would be the first black U.S. president, was narrowly leading McCain in opinion polls before the election and the state was widely considered a tossup. He is the first Democrat to carry Virginia since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

The victory gives Obama Virginia's 13 electoral votes, and the capture of a traditionally Republican state pushes him closer to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency in the United States' indirect system of choosing a leader.
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