I live in McLean. What many FReepers fail to understand is that NoVA is becoming a Northeastern state in terms of voting patterns and demographics. It is no longer a quaint, conservative southern state.
i am not completely without hope though. there are not the plethora of Obama yard signs that i might expect. our neighborhood has only ONE, and that inveterate lib always has dem signage and attempts to hand out dem propaganda with his halloween candy each year. my kids tear it up and leave it in his driveway ; ) Falls Church has some, not as many in previous years. Del Ray has some also, but i do see some McCain signs as well. my daughter is in private middle school in alexandria. 3 out of 10 in her class said they were voting for McCain, the other 7 for obama. i don’t have a good read on my son’s HS class yet, but he is at Gonzaga in DC and so that is a multistate operation there anyway.
And I've been hearing experts such as yourself make this argument for years now. So if the demographics have been shifting so dramatically, why did Bush increase his margin in Virginia? WHY?!?!?