GOP voting bills aimed at party hegemony in Virginia

By Associated Press

Published January 27, 2013 5:00am ET

GOP voting bills aimed at party hegemony in Virginia — Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, D-Fairfax, left, and Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr., R-James City, right, confer in the rear of the Virginia Senate chamber at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va. Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The Republican and Democratic members have been at odds all week, since Republicans passed a new redistricting plan while Democratic Senator Henry L. Marsh, III, D-Richmond was attending the Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown). | BOB BROWN

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s not the only electoral battleground with a Republican-ruled legislature where President Barack Obama mopped up last year en route to re-election.

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