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Jon King

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5. This was about school closures due to Covid.

Wed Nov 3, 2021, 01:33 AM

Nov 2021

Lots has been made about the CRT and trans kids but it came down to anger about the school closures due to Covid. The Atlantic has a great article about this.

People can argue about how it could have been handled differently. In the end the teachers simply would not do in person learning and who could blame them. But parents did not want to hear this. Work schedules were destroyed, suburban moms pushed out of the workforce.

Youngkin took the anger about Covid closures and rolled it right into CRT and parents rights to decide the curriculum. It was a perfect issue for him and gave him the suburbs.

Of course other factors such as Dem voter fatigue and Biden's low approval among indies did not help.

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In blow to Democrats, Republican Youngkin wins Virginia governor's race, NBC News projects [View all] Polybius Nov 2021 OP

The school curriculum issues created the path to defeat (IMHO). Steelrolled Nov 2021 #1

Those issues were completely made up out of pure BS IronLionZion Nov 2021 #16

Silver platter The Mouth Nov 2021 #26

Welcome to DU orangecrush Nov 2021 #24

Thanks! Steelrolled Nov 2021 #32

The President's party ALWAYS loses the VA gov race the year after a new president is elected Fiendish Thingy Nov 2021 #2

The media Traildogbob Nov 2021 #3

Exactly! Plus, 2009 was worse. SouthBayDem Nov 2021 #4

51% or 58% matters little to me Polybius Nov 2021 #6

Right, that difference only matters if you care about performance. Bucky Nov 2021 #13

agreed 10x !! the media & all these tabloid non- journalism ! monkeyman1 Nov 2021 #30

This was about school closures due to Covid. Jon King Nov 2021 #5

So they vote malletgirl02 Nov 2021 #8

The Five Laws of Stupidity Bucky Nov 2021 #14

All of the repub governors in Virginia have been terrible BonnieJW Nov 2021 #20

Tim Kaine might beg to differ. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 #23

Wedge issues, Biden's weakness in the polls, and Trump not present to demonize andym Nov 2021 #7

Creepy ananda Nov 2021 #9

Virginians are the biggest losers here SouthernDem4ever Nov 2021 #10

THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 LenaBaby61 Nov 2021 #27

It's a blow to Virginia and its citizens jcmaine72 Nov 2021 #11

don't vote ! pay the price ! no -pity ! live with it ! monkeyman1 Nov 2021 #31

My Concern is that even with Top Shelf help ... PBC_Democrat Nov 2021 #12

I really wonder how much it helps to bring in "big names" Steelrolled Nov 2021 #21

I hate to say this but McAuliffe came across to me as kind of annoying. It was not his message so CTyankee Nov 2021 #22

It was a sweep for the Repubs, which is what is so bad about this. Calista241 Nov 2021 #15

No Matter How Bad Last Night Was...And It Was Bad, Here In Virginia.... COL Mustard Nov 2021 #17

.... orangecrush Nov 2021 #25

Trumpism won IronLionZion Nov 2021 #18

Seems to be a troubling trend. Moebym Nov 2021 #33

Great article if you have a WaPo subscription IronLionZion Nov 2021 #34

All politics is local Deminpenn Nov 2021 #36

I wish our party would do this better IronLionZion Nov 2021 #38

So my former home state followed the James M Buchannan BS turbinetree Nov 2021 #19

Sad UCmeNdc Nov 2021 #28

This should have been a slam dunk. OneCrazyDiamond Nov 2021 #29

Or maybe some things that we support aren't as popular as we think Polybius Nov 2021 #35

Agree Deminpenn Nov 2021 #37

That's the same argument Manchin uses. OneCrazyDiamond Nov 2021 #39