(CNN) – Take a larger than life governor who may have designs on the White House and a battleground state crucial in presidential politics, and guess what: 2013 might not be as quiet a political year as you thought.
New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states to hold gubernatorial contests in the year after a presidential election, and in both states, the campaign clocks are already ticking.
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Washington (CNN) - If Mark Warner wants back his old job as Virginia governor, a new poll suggests it may be his for the taking.
A Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday indicates the first term U.S. senator would be the favorite candidate as the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial campaign gets underway.
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Washington (CNN) - It's take two for Terry McAuliffe.
The former Democratic National Committee chairman and former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton announced on Thursday that he'll make a second run for Virginia governor.
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(CNN) – After weeks of touting a robust army of foot soldiers charging ahead with GOP get-out-the-vote efforts, Virginia governor and a top surrogate for the Republican ticket Bob McDonnell conceded that President Barack Obama's campaign trumped Republicans on the ground game.
CNN projected that Obama would win re-election late Tuesday night, besting Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the swing state of Virginia by three points. With 97% of precincts ballots in, Obama pulled ahead – 51% to Romney's 48%.
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Washington (CNN) – In the hotly contested state of Virginia, Democrat Tim Kaine has defeated Republican George Allen in the race for the state's open Senate seat.
Allen conceded in a Tuesday night speech and pledged his support to Kaine.
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(CNN) – Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will spend Election Day on the road in Ohio and Virginia, his campaign said Monday night. Earlier in the day CNN reported that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hold Election Day events.
Ryan's schedule puts him landing at the same Ohio airport at approximately the same time as Romney.
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Richmond, Virginia (CNN) – Joe Biden's final campaign rally, held outside a Civil War museum in the capital of battleground Virginia, provided the vice president an opportunity to hark back to the first election that put him on the national political scene, four decades ago.
"I got elected when I was a 29-year-old kid to the Senate," Biden said in the closing minutes of his speech. "I was characterized as a young idealist. You read about me now in the major press, I'm always referred to as the White House optimist."
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Sterling, Virginia (CNN) - Joe Biden, speaking to an enthusiastic crowd in Virginia Monday, continued his assault on Mitt Romney's T.V. commercial claiming Chrysler is sending Jeep production to China, saying the spot running in Ohio was scaring already-nervous auto workers.
"Now they're trying to scare the living bedevil out of Ohioans. One in eight jobs in Ohio is in the automobile industry," Biden said at the event at a farm in Sterling.
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(CNN) – A new poll released Monday indicates that President Barack Obama has a razor thin margin over Mitt Romney in Virginia, a crucial battleground state with 13 electoral votes.
Forty-eight percent of likely voters in the state back the president, while 47% support the GOP presidential nominee, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist survey. The one-point margin is well within the poll's sampling error, meaning the two candidates are statistically tied.
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Norfolk, Virginia (CNN) –In a late campaign push to change the battleground map, Mitt Romney will travel to Pennsylvania on Sunday in the hopes of capturing the traditionally Democratic-leaning state. A Romney campaign official confirmed to CNN the GOP nominee will stop in the Philadelphia area Sunday afternoon.
The Pennsylvania event falls into the Romney campaign's newly adopted strategy of expanding the battleground map in the final week of the race. Top strategists to the GOP nominee targeted Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota this week for potential gains, pointing to polls in the states that show Romney gaining on the President.
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