Obama making play for the coalfields

TPM reports that Obama is opening 20 new field offices in Virginia - and that five of them are in the western counties of the state where he lost heavily to Hillary Clinton (despite his statewide victory).

The Obama team is setting up shop in Winchester and Bristol, both of which are in areas that voted for Bush in 2004 by at least 25 points. Camp Obama is also adding an office in Harrisonburg, which went for Bush by 13 and is in the reliably-red Shenandoah Valley.

There will also be a new office in Castlewood, which is in the coalfields near West Virginia and Kentucky and went for Bush by eight, and in Martinsville, whose surrounding county went for Bush by 13 points.

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