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McCain in Huck's Counties

Karl Rove and Michael Barone on the early numbers they're seeing

Huckabee's beating McCain in the Shenandoah Valley, but in counties where he's getting beat, he's getting better percentages than he got against Bush in 2000, with his strong counties in the Washington exurbs and Northern Virginia yet to report.

He'll need decent margins in Fairfax and Loudon to turn the tide against the early-reporting votes in Southwest Virginia.