August 11, 2006....a day that will live in infamy in Virginia electoral politics.
The day that the sleeping giant of Northern Virginia realized it had untapped political power.
Considering NOVA voted for Bush in 2004, the narrative that it *finally* outvoted the rest of VA (as if it'd been trying to but outnumbered) is just wrong.
Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Arlington, and Alexandria all voted for Kerry, not Bush.
The George Allen/Jim Webb 2006 race only accelerated the Democratic trend, creating a surge of new Dem voters in the DC burbs.
The 2008 presidential race exacerbated this trend even further in a rather dramatic fashion, resulting in 2 entrenched liberal strongholds in the state: NOVA and the black vote in the Tidewater region.
