[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.

[wylenetheconservative]

Due to the suburbanization and exburbanization of America, most small town communities that are anywhere near a city are becoming bedroom communities as people flee the cities and the horrible school districts in them.