It's also worth noting just how enormous the voting power of the Northern Virginia suburbs has grown. Bush lost his re-election campaign, he won Virginia by four points. He was buoyed by a 100,000-plus-vote advantage outside of Northern Virginia that overwhelmed Bill Clinton's 12,000-vote advantage in the areas surrounding Washington. Here's another way to look at it: From the 1992 to the 2012 presidential elections, the population of Northern Virginia grew from 1.5 million to 2.2 million. Corey Stewart, the chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors and the head of Trump's Virginia campaign, insists that Trump continues to have a path in Virginia.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 14, 2016 01:30 UTC