pragmatic liberal
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« on: October 23, 2008, 12:16:15 PM » |
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The same reason Obama (prior to the financial collapse) looked likely to win Virginia while losing the rest of the South.
The partisan affiliations have flipped -- Virginia always had a big "Northern" population in NoVa and historically was a more moderate/two-party Southern state.
The types of voters that put Ford over the top in 1976 -- suburbanites, professionals -- now heavily lean Democratic, while the conservative rural white voters now support Republicans.
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