So let me get this straight: All those civil servants and employees of the military-industrial complex living in northern VA are Communists.
They are unpatriotic and anti-American.
And they are not "real" Virginians.
I get that the McPalin campaign is all-but conceding that they cannot win the votes of those who know government best, including many many members of the military and national security community. I might ask why they’re conceding that, why they seem to admit they can’t gain any resonance with these voters, but whatever–I guess they’ve seen the polling.
What I really want to know, though, is how this is not, effectively, a concession for the entire race. McCain has admitted he needs to win all the Bush states that are currently still toss ups: FL, NC, MO, IN, CO, NV.
And VA.
(IA and NM, in which Obama holds big poll margins right now, would bring Obama to 263; VA has 13 electoral college votes.)
Yet his campaign seems to be pursuing a strategy designed to offend the largest chunk of Virginia’s population.