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Barack Obama campaigns in Roanoke, Va., in October. He won over a good share of white voters, even in longtime Republican states like Virginia, which hadnt voted Democratic in more than 40 years.

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( Joe Raedle / Getty Images / October 17, 2008 )

Barack Obama campaigns in Roanoke, Va., in October. He won over a good share of white voters, even in longtime Republican states like Virginia, which hadnt voted Democratic in more than 40 years.

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