Where Barack Obama’s independent problem began

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If there was any state that announced that something very big had happened in American politics with Barack Obama’s election in 2008, it was the state he will visit on Tuesday. Virginia had not voted for a Democratic president since 1964 when it went for Obama.

And if there was any state to warn Obama that the independent voters who gave him his historic victory were deeply disaffected, it was again Virginia.