You can’t get a whole lot more Democratic than
Fairfax County, just outside of D.C.  Barack Obama carried
Fairfax 60-38 against John McCain in 2008. That’s six percentage
points higher than Obama’s statewide margin, which Fairfax helped
inflate because it is the commonwealth’s largest locality: 13.5
percent of Virginians live there. Four years before, George W. Bush
carried Virginia with 54 percent of the vote—but not Fairfax, where
John Kerry got 53 percent. The county board of supervisors
reflects the split as well, writes A. Barton Hinkle. Seven of the
10 members are Democrats. That makes its recent stance on state
government—”Please try to leave us alone”—rather amusing.