THE ELITE REPUBLICANS

of permanent Washington are the residents of some of the richest communities in the nation.  These are the wealthy Republican lobbyists and lawyers, the high paid Congressional staffers, the elite of the military industrial complex, and by overwhelming margins their candidate for President is John McCain.  McCain is taking 63% of the vote in Fairfax County to Huckabee's 25%, and in the county of Arlington McCain is taking 69% to Huckabee's 17%. In the city of Alexandria McCain has 70% of the vote to Huckabee's 16%.  Overall McCain is taking 60% of the vote in Northern Virginia.  Without these overwhelming margins among the D.C. Republicans John McCain would have done much more poorly in the state of Virginia, a state where McCain is showing surprising weakness even in the Naval community of Norfork.