"Ward 5's fast-growing southwestern precincts" -- that would include Bloomingdale

Washington Post's Mike DeBonis evaluates how DC voting patterns have changed over the past four years.

D.C.’s new geopolitics

Posted by Mike DeBonis on November 26, 2012 at 7:48 pm

Here is a comment from Mike's article about some changes in Ward 5.

The traditional vote-rich wards — 3, 4, 5 and 7 — have simply not kept up. Wards 3 and 7 both grew about 6 percent, outpacing their registration growth but not by much.  Ward 5 saw 10 percent growth in both registration and presidential voting, driven in no small part by the ward’s fast-growing southwestern precincts. 

                        
The fast-growing Ward 5 southwestern precincts would include Bates/Truxton/Hanover, Eckington ... and Bloomingdale.

No surprise to us!