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Blacksburg GOP parties dwindle as news of Romney's defeat announced

November 7, 2012

Enthusiasm had already diminished among republicans around Blacksburg before the final announcement was made that Mitt Romney had lost the presidential race to Barack Obama.

Students host election viewing parties in dorms

November 7, 2012

Corey Scott: Republican student advocates for struggling hometown

November 6, 2012

Corey Scott is from coal country. His stepdad sells machinery for a major supplier to coal mines. His mother is a schoolteacher. Politics run in his family. His grandfather was a county administrator in his hometown of Wise, Virginia. Population: 3,296. Graduating class: 180.