Author: Payden H Volbrecht
Source: AP
The election of 2008 where Barack Obama won his first presidency was a critical election for Virginia. A critical election is an election where the voting patterns of a region completely switch from one party to another and maintains the new voting pattern for a few elections. So in 2008 when Virginia voted for Obama it marked a change in the voting patterns for the state. This democratic trend continued in 2012 when they elected Obama again. While both the 2008 and 2012 election represent a critical election both elections were for the same candidate, meaning that the state hadn't switched to the a democratic state but simply liked Obama. The 2016 election is what solidified the fact that Virginia has become a democratic state when it voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. In Virginia 1,916,845 or 50% of voters voted for Hillary, while only 1,731,156 or 45% of all voters voted for Donald Trump.
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