[wylenetheconservative]

According to the US Census Bureau, those counties constitute the Columbus metro area. Thats why I said Bush carried the Columbus metro area.

http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro-city/ma99-03a.txt

[Torie]

Well, even if you append counties that really don't have a lot of folks that really live in Columbus suburbs, or exurbs, and live in small to medium sized towns that have been there since rocks cooled, what do you have? Maybe a 53% Bush margin?

[Torie]

Another way to look at it, is that five heavily GOP counties have been wiped off the map, and are not within the Columbus metro area, and comfort us that Bush still can win there by a bit. At that rate, Ohio won't have any rural or small town counties left. They will all be sucked up into metro districts, except largely unpopulated outliers.