virginia.jpgA new NBC News poll puts Obama within 3 points of McCain in increasingly purple Virginia.
But Virginian/McCain backer Jerry Falwell has a plan to get his 10,500 Lynchburg-based students to the polls:

To make sure students don’t have any excuses for not voting, Falwell has canceled classes on Election Day and has arranged for city buses to take students to the polls. Liberty already pays the city to allow students to ride its buses at no charge.

AP has the story.


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