[kevao]

Fairfax County is as blue as it gets. Suburb of DC, all government workers. What there is of the private sector, is government-dependent private sector.

[Mach9]

Not really. Though Obama won here in ‘08, Frank Wolf (R) has never lost an election. And FFX is also the home of many military types and a huge contingent of defense contractors. And the National Rifle Assn. There’s a really good chance it goes back to red this year.

[muawiyah]

You are conflating Fairfax with Arlington and Alexandria. They are, in turn dominated by Democrats employed mostly by the nonprofit fundraising industry .

Alexandria last elected a Republican in the Civil War or something ~ Arlington is almost as bad. But in none of these counties are the majority of people, or voters, employees of the federal government.

[muawiyah]

Regarding who is a suburb of what, there is this thing called the Washington DC SMSA. Ordinarily an SMSA is named after the largest political subdivision in the region. Fairfax is the largest. Technically this is the Fairfax SMSA, and Washington, DC is a Fairfax suburb!

[American Constitutionalist]

Might as well say that Fairfax County and Monkey County ( Montgomery ) of O’Malleyland are the same county in 2 different states.... same demographics... same BS.