[Defiant]

Don't be too secure. California used to elect Reagan and Bush I by comfortable margins. Southern California used to have enough conservatives in San Diego and Orange County to overcome San Francisco. LA was always a wash, with the valley voting GOP and the city voting Dim. Now, changing demographics have made LA completely lib, while Orange County and San Diego are far less conservative than before. Northern California has gone from 55 percent lib to about 75 percent lib. The GOP has written off the state since 1996.

Keep your eye on Northern Virginia, and don't let libs moving there change the character of the state.

[Corin Stormhands]

Don't be too secure. California used to elect Reagan and Bush I by comfortable margins...

True, but Virginia is not California. We don't have Hollyweird and the City by the Gays...

Where California gets progressively more liberal, Virginia has been getting progressively more Republican (we've always been conservative).

Don't get me wrong, we are having to fight harder due to the influence from Northern Virginia (and points beyond). But Virginia is ~for now at least~ a solidly Republican state.

[RobbyS]

The Democratic Party is still the government party, so the further awayfrom DC the commute grows, the larger the area that will vote blue.