Virginia Adds Close to a Half Million New Voters

It took a week since the voter registration deadline to get them all counted and processed, but Virginia finally has a tally of how many new registered voters there are in the battleground state for the Nov. 4 general election, and it's pretty staggering: 436,000 people registered to vote in Virginia since Jan. 1, reports the Post, with more than 100,000 of those registering just between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6. Here's the key passage: "Virginia does not register voters by political party, but jurisdictions with a history of supporting Democratic presidential candidates appears to have the largest share of new registrants." The Obama campaign in Virginia must be dancing around their offices right now. In 2004, the state registered roughly 300,000 new voters before that year's presidential election.