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John McCain returned to Virginia this weekend for what was expected to be his final visit to the crucial battleground state before Tuesday's election and insisted the race for the White House was far from over.

The Republican presidential candidate started Saturday at a rally in Norfolk in the Hampton Roads area before heading north to Springfield to address several thousand supporters gathered on a haulage company car park in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

Going into the final weekend of the campaign, McCain trails Democratic opponent Barack Obama by nine points -- according to CNN's latest poll of polls -- in a state that has voted Republican since 1968 but he told cheering fans: "We're coming back. The Mac is back! Read full article »

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