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Article: Obama Courts Southside Virginia; Focus Is on Jobs In Conservative, Troubled Region
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- August 21, 2008
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Sen. Barack Obama lamented the loss of U.S. jobs Wednesday as he
campaigned in a region of southern Virginia that in recent elections
has spurned Democratic presidential candidates.
Obama came to economically distressed Southside alongside Mark R.
Warner, a popular former governor who seven years ago made the
strongest electoral showing in rural Virginia of any statewide
Democratic candidate in a generation. Warner is running for U.S.
Senate, and Democrats hope he can help Obama snare Virginia's 13
electoral votes.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee spoke to workers
laid off from nearby factories at a packed town hall meeting in a
cavernous warehouse here used by Patrick Henry ...
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