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Clinton hopes to keep Obama from rolling up a big-margin victory in Virginia by courting white suburban women, Latinos, federal workers in Northern Virginia and poor, rural whites to the south and to the west – voters who had gravitated to the populist message of John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who dropped out of the Democratic race last month.

Obama will likely be weakest in those poorer rural white parts of the commonwealth – the Shenandoah Valley and Southwest Virginia – but there are only two congressional districts, and eight pledged district delegates, to be had in these regions.