{"id":849,"date":"2008-09-24T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/09\/falwells-gotv-plan-in-virginia.html"},"modified":"2008-09-24T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T10:22:05","slug":"falwells-gotv-plan-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/09\/falwells-gotv-plan-in-virginia.html","title":{"rendered":"Falwell&#8217;s GOTV Plan in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"virginia.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/imgs\/virginia.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"69\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2008\/09\/24\/1438492.aspx\">NBC News poll<\/a> puts Obama within 3 points of McCain in increasingly purple Virginia.<br \/>\nBut Virginian\/McCain backer Jerry Falwell has a plan to get his 10,500 Lynchburg-based students to the polls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To make sure students don&#8217;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. 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