Bacon's Rebellion

Did School Battles Hurt Dems in Liberal Strongholds?

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James A. Bacon
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Did local school-board issues in Loudoun County boost turnout for Republicans and discourage Democratic Party turnout in the 2024 presidential election? A New York Times article explores that possibility. Money quote from Austin Levine, a Republican-leaning independent who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016:

Mr. Levine said he remains disappointed by what he sees as a lack of accountability for Democratic-majority institutions, like the school system, that failed his family during the pandemic. He said his two sons learned “nothing” while Loudoun schools were largely shut down for more than a year, and the academic effects were still being felt by his younger child, now a high school junior.

Normally, we hear about the issues in presidential races affecting down-ballot contests. This year, we may have seen the reverse: local issues affecting a national race. — JAB

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4 responses to “Did School Battles Hurt Dems in Liberal Strongholds?”

  1. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
    f/k/a_tmtfairfax

    During the worst of the pandemic, my brother taught in person in a New Hampshire public school most of the time. My niece did the same in a Minnesota public school. How could that be?

  2. LarrytheG Avatar
    LarrytheG

    No question, the school closures had a negative effect on parents and voters and it's still being "litigated" in terms of whether is was necessary or not and portends to be an issue if/when there are future contagious disease outbreaks of COVID scope and scale.

    Clearly , govt and non-govt scientists – in the USA and around the world did not really "KNOW" with certitude of HOW such a disease would impact as individuals nor the individual's propensity to infect others and/or others individual susceptibility to that specific disease.

    Some people seemed to think that science "failed" in its ability to find out and know these things and then to be able to develop well-founded policies.

    Science needed more time to find out those things than they had before the disease took hold, time they did not get and STILL do not fully know
    even now.

    In the meantime, no shortage of critics and blame and I think "exploitation" for political reasons – and it did work.

    There will be a "next time" at some point and that disease could be very
    different in the factors and including who it affects or not, how deadly, means of infection, etc, etc. AND Covid was a pussycat compared to other
    diseases that do exist in the world, like Ebola of which, ironically, we
    DEPEND on the same folks we have blamed for COVID to protect us.

    What we found out is that some people are not tolerant of the unknowns nor the measures taken , policies, not based on certitude but "best guess"
    especially at things like keeping kids out of school or not or how to protect
    people in nursing homes or not, etc.

    Finally, on contagion itself – there seems to be a feeling with more than a few, that not everyone will be affected especially if the vulnerable isolate and the less vulnerable congregate as normal and develop herd immunity,

    None of these things are wholly predictable. People counted on the science and the science came up short then people abandoned the consensus science and chose to believe other science or even others that are not science.

    What happens at the next one? Probably not good things, maybe a lot more deaths because we can't agree on what or who to believe.

  3. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    this is the guy to head commerce…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnjo7H7xipc

    Two small problems. Europe has a 10% tariff on US cars. Japan doesn’t have any tariff on US cars. Don’t have to. Nobody in Japan wants a crappy car with the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. Plus, Japan ships very few automobiles to the US. They’re made here by US workers.

    This is a real confidence builder.

  4. Clarity77 Avatar
    Clarity77

    Hello Dick Hall-Sizemore! As I earlier made the point to you which you chose to deny, Americans have had enough of your perverted democrat ideology in our public schools when it comes especially to the critical race theory and transgender insanity. Which comes on top of the predictably feckless democrat ways at every level of education for now decades which has resulted in disgusting levels of illiteracy, miseducation, misinformation, disinformation, etc., ad infinitum.

    So you earlier chose to disregard a conservative news source and now you have it not only from the NYT but I am going to add below for your enlightenment from the leftist propaganda rag of the WAPO. The message is quite clear and this time undeniable!

    And yes they clearly have given Trump a mandate to get rid of democrats and replace with Republicans who were pushed out decades ago when the American education system was the envy of the world!

    https://archive.is/DLVwF

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