This isn’t Fairfax County that is the problem, it is Virginia Beach. We used to win it by 20 points, which offset Fairyfax. McCain lost Virginia Beach, Romney won it by less than 3%, Gillespie won it by 7%. It seems to be swinging back in the right direction, but we have to run up bigger margins here (add Chesapeake and Chesterfield to the list) to win the state.
Fairfax, on the other hand, actually voted even more Republican than the rest of the state (in presidential elections) up through 2000, then went hard left.
In state-level elections Fairfax, unlike Va. Beach, has been dead red (Commie red) for a long time and is getting worse lately.
Interesting point and I know you are very familiar with VA politics from previous posts.
Still, Fairfax is a disaster now. Take it from someone who lives here. Even otherwise conservative people up here vote for the party of government because their careers and livelihoods depend on it. The people up here oppose any kinds of shutdowns or cuts of any kind, especially things like the sequestration defense cuts. Almost every job, in one way or the other, is connected to government. Even if a company is not a prime or sub government contracter, so many of the supporting companies make their money from providing services to them.
We need to dig up the fraud, even if it doesn’t give us enough votes. If fraud is not stopped. We might as well give up the country.