Trouble spreading for GOP?

First, Republicans lost the urban core. Then America’s suburbs blue-shifted into the Democratic column.

Now the Washington Post is reporting on Democratic inroads into the “exurbs” — those rural-like outer-ring bastions of conservatism that fueled the Bush revolution.

Here’s a key passage from the article:

In 2004, Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry managed to narrowly win Fairfax County, the largest suburb in Northern Virginia, but Bush still carried fast-growing Prince William and Loudoun on his way to an eight-point victory. But over the next two years, [Democratic] Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and Sen. James Webb expanded the Democratic line outward, carrying the two exurban counties in winning their races.

If Obama and the Democrats can continue to expand that ring, they win – simple as that.

Unless, of course, the GOP finds a message that can once again make them competitive in the urban and suburban geography that they’ve largely conceded.

Read the full article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901697.html?hpid=topnews