Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Den of Thieves Date:   4/19/2016 9:15:55 PM

You are right, it is a bigger demographic mix in the DC area, although who knows how many of them can vote? 

But you get a real mix of people there - hardly anyone is from there, and there are people from all over the country that have moved there.  I suspect you would find a bigger population of Democrats right now because of the Democratic Administration.  Virginia politics is a real mixed bag.  I think it could go either way.   A lot of my VA friends were impressed with Ben Carson to start with. 

One thing you can be sure of  - there are a lot of well educated voters in that area, particularly in Fairfax, Arlington and around the Charlotteville area so it is unlikely that they will be dazzled by personality.  But rhetoric about how government employees have ruined the country is not going to play at all; nor will cuts to military and VA benefits.