Looked up the county on wikipedia. This is historically a majority Republican county pre-2008. Currently unanimously (R) board of supervisors and delegation to the Va. House of Delegates but evenly split delegation to the Va. State Senate. Loudoun is in the 10th congressional district, represented by a Republican who's won every election since 1980. Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin lives here too.

And loons, too. Lyndon LaRouche had his compound there and his unusual people still haunt public locations there. Jack Kent Cooke, the Firestones, the Queen of England, and other exceedingly wealthy people once owned most of the county.

But starting in the late 1980s, the wealthy landowners sold out to developers, "Fairfaxing" the eastern half of Loudoun and building thousands upon thousands of townhomes along the Route 7 corridor. They did it by ripping out tens of thousands of acres of forest along the Potomac River, under the ruse that they were building an "educational campus," then built the homes as "student housing." Then they sold that as regular homes.

The rich people didn't like the traffic, particularly after they clogged a single two-lane road with tens of thousands of cars each day, so they used their juice to gain state approval for a privately-owned toll road that connects to Dulles Airport. It used to cost a lot to use--like five dollars a day--because the intent was to keep the peons off the road so that rich people could get to the airports and DC faster.

Once a pretty fine example of Old Virginia horse-and-plantation country, Loudon is now hopelessly fucked by greed and overdevelopment. But hey, it has an Old Navy!

Edit: The point of my post above is this: President Obama is headed straight for the hoop, here. Once the bastion of conservative funding, Loudoun is now a pretty good example of a declining suburban hell. Poor and middle class voters now overwhelmingly outnumber the wealthy. If the President can get those people to look around and see what's happening, a good chunk of Mitt Romney's funding gets diverted to dealing with the local crises there, instead. And, it's a rather blunt message, too: "I'm coming for your asses."

I'm going to hit the ball over there.

Loudoun county was large horse farms for very rich people. I hear now subdivisions and urban sprawl has crept out that way. I don't doubt that it is a repug area.

We're all going with Obama....

a concentration of Tea Bagger nuts. The Board of Supervisors tends to sway from pole to pole, and last year tilted to full Republican control. Thankfully, the presidential election cycle should be a different story.

And hope we're both right.