Democrat Barack Obama leads the presidential voting in Staunton with only absentee votes still needing to be counted.
Obama has 5,161 votes, 51.0 percent, to Republican Mitt Romney’s 4,754 votes, or 47.0 percent.
Obama won Staunton in 2008 with 5,569 votes, 50.6 percent, to Republican John McCain’s 5,330 votes, 48.4 percent.
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