If you follow presidential politics at all, you have heard news commentators constantly talking about swing states - those whose election outcome is uncertain. What you may not realize is that within swing states there are swing localities. This book is about such a place, a swing county in a swing state. It describes what happened when a Republican leaning Virginia county of 300,000 was suddenly thrust into this position in 2008 after being essentially ignored by presidential campaigns for more than a half century. Loudoun County - wealthy, educated, and fiercely independent - provided the...