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The District of Columbia is the most solidly Democratic spot in the entire country, according to new polling analysis from Gallup (hat tip to the Post’s Behind the Numbers blog). Not only does President Obama enjoy hugely favorable approval numbers inside D.C. (87 percent, compared to 53 percent nationwide), but Democrats have a whopping 66 percentage point advantage here. That’s more than double the difference in the next most Democratic state, Rhode Island, where Democrats enjoy a 32 percentage point advantage.

Can’t say we’re too surprised. And again, it would make more sense to compare D.C. to other cities, though we’d expect the result to be the same — we’re hard pressed to think of a single other U.S. city where the Democratic primary is pretty much always the de facto election for citywide offices.