Politics
Politics are a major topic for the Greater Richmond Region, considering main city Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia State Capitol is located in the historic Capitol Square. Also, the new U.S. Courthouse was opened in 2010, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is located in Richmond, as well, along with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Richmond is a major political city in the USA, and a majority of Central Virginians work in the political field. Richmond has had its share of voting, and was completely Republican until 2008, during Obama's campaign, in which for the first time in decades, Richmond chose the Democratic Party.
| Year | GOP | DEM | Others |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 46.5% 291,304 | 52.8% 330,528 | 0.7% 4,369 |
| 2004 | 55.0% 287,810 | 44.4% 232,240 | 0.6% 3,239 |
| 2000 | 54.4% 239,734 | 43.1% 189,867 | 2.6% 11,269 |
| 1996 | 50.6% 200,687 | 42.4% 168,190 | 6.9% 27,387 |
| 1992 | 44.9% 184,241 | 40.0% 164,116 | 15.0% 61,538 |
| 1988 | 62.4% 224,861 | 36.7% 132,277 | 0.9% 3,406 |
| 1984 | 64.1% 231,956 | 35.4% 128,044 | 0.5% 1,792 |
| 1980 | 55.9% 178,936 | 39.5% 126,245 | 4.6% 14,797 |
| 1976 | 53.8% 155,979 | 44.1% 127,693 | 2.1% 6,044 |
| 1972 | 70.5% 176,154 | 27.8% 69,598 | 1.7% 4,185 |
| 1968 | 46.5% 109,988 | 30.8% 72,876 | 22.7% 53,648 |
| 1964 | 55.1% 103,295 | 44.9% 84,184 | 0.1% 144 |
| 1960 | 58.4% 75,523 | 40.9% 52,945 | 0.7% 905 |
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“His talk was like a spring, which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses:
It slipped from politics to puns,
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)
“...to many a mother’s heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother’s kiss.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)