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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If you walk along the path on the north side of the North River in Bridgewater, just west of the Route 42/South Main Street bridge, you come across the plaque of one of the town’s most prominent citizens over the last 50 years.
Donald Trump wants fewer people – he’d prefer zero – voting in elections. Virginia wants as many folks to vote as possible.
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