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Getty 071812 MittRomneyOhio?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1351273001057J.D. Pooley/Getty Images(DES MOINES, Iowa) — The Romney campaign has rescheduled a Sunday night Virginia Beach rally due to impending Hurricane Sandy. A campaign aide said that safety is the campaign’s top priority.

It is the first of what could be many scheduling shifts ahead of the storm for both Romney and President Obama.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency in Virginia earlier Friday, bracing for impact for the storm that if current projections hold, could hit the state over the weekend and into early next week.

Virginia remains one of several swing state that are crucial to Romney’s victory in November, where recent polling has the GOP candidate neck-in-neck with the president.

The now-rescheduled event was set to begin at 7:45 p.m. on Sunday.  A new time has not been set. Other events in Haymarket, Va., and Richmond, Va., on Sunday are still on the books — for now.

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