Tom Davis: Keep "Urban Kind of People" Out of VA-11: "Oh, Tom. Those pesky minorities, voting Democratic again. If only you could take them out of those districts you need to win - it would be so much easier for Republicans to gain power and stay in power!

Of course, if you can't "take out" minorities, your next best defense if you're a Republican is keeping them from coming into your district in the first place, and an article in today's Washington Post shows us that Davis is actively engaged in preventing more "urban kind of people" from moving into his own district:"

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"One politician who spoke to Davis says the congressman told him straight-out that he opposes Pulte Homes' MetroWest project because 'all it does is produce Democrats.'

Davis won reelection last year with a solid 60 percent of the vote against a largely unknown opponent, but he saw frightening cracks in his electoral foundation. 'He lost Merrifield, the area around the Dunn Loring Metro station, and he's convinced that it turned blue because of development around the station,' says Democrat Gerry Connolly, the Fairfax board chairman. [...]

Davis's alternative to density at such suburban Metro stations as Vienna is not more sprawl, but rather a push to repopulate the District. 'Culturally, the people who would move into this project in Vienna are urban kind of people. A lot of them are single, and they would be happy living closer in.'"

(Via Democracy for Virginia.)