If you voted for Youngkin, what was the number one reason?

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Anonymous wrote:The sense that something other than educating kids is the #1 goal of education policy. Scoring wokepoints, satisfying teachers unions, whatever other cause de jour...

+100 same here, plus I don't like one party having both houses and the governorship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why when a republican wins, the democrats wring their hands but when a dem wins, the Republicans say the election was stolen?

Dems said the election was stolen from Hillary.

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Anonymous wrote:Why when a republican wins, the democrats wring their hands but when a dem wins, the Republicans say the election was stolen?

LOL honey no its the other way around.

No one who matted is disputing that Youngkin won. Yes, I’m sure there are a couple of Twitter randos you can dig up, but they don’t matter because no one listens to them and they’re not in a position to do anything.

In contrast, Trump and his Republican allies filed more than *40* lawsuits trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. And when those all failed, his supporters stormed the Capitol Building during certification of the election results to try to stop the results from being certified.

There is no way you can spin that into anything other than your post being a lie. Be better than that.

[Anonymous]

Education is just the “cause” that white tribalism got behind this time. The “cause” shifts around. Remember Trump voters who just had “economic insecurity?” It’s the same thing. Youngkin didn’t have any education proposals that are meaningful. Having him as Governor vs McAuliffe (who is a centrist, after all) won’t change anything meaningful about schools or what they teach or how.

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Own the libs? Is that the right answer?

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Anonymous wrote:Number one reason was the state of public schools. Virtual learning last year opened my eyes to the liberal agenda waving very strongly. And I’m not even talking about crt. I’m taking about dumbing down academics to a point where nothing is being taught, for the sake of equity. Which left my kid not learning anything. I realized the teaching approaches for reading and math were dismal for early elementary. Heavy reliance on iPads, no grading, no phonics, no structure. That may work in high school but it doesn’t in early elementary. Secondly, I will not get my kid vaccinated until there is full fda approval. It felt almost certain that a Democrat in charge would try to usher in vaccine mandates preemptively. As a side note, I am a registered Democrat and have been most of my life. The whole agenda is just swinging too far left and feels like it is leaving me behind, for the sake of larger social issues that I don’t have a dog in the fight in.

I have not heard of any concrete education policies from Youngkin than “NOT CRT” and “parents choice”, which means even more school board control as they must take in the input from all the crank parents you saw parodied on SNL as directed by State policy.

Did he say “phonics”, elimination of technology, enforced grading and homework? I saw nothing like that. Just no CRT and modern day book burning for Toni Morrison. Please share with me his policies that will enact what you say, as I largely support your back to basics education but don’t think Youngkin cares.

This is what the Ds failed to realize. The bar was so low, all the Rs had to be was the party less likely to close in person school for a year.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband voted for him. He claims he is a libertarian but usually votes R. I think his main reason was being over things like mask mandates. He generally doesn’t like Democrat fiscal plans. He is generally socially liberal - supports gay marriage, etc. On our way to the polls I said you should vote D for abortion with the upcoming SC decisions and he just said he wasn’t worried about losing the right to abortion in VA.

He is a teacher and generally does think standards in schools have been lowered.

Supporting gay marriage is not "liberal." https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same-sex-marriage.aspx (70% of Americans overall, and 55% of Republicans support gay marriage.)

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t defend black face.

But I bet he defends the orange face old fat incompetent guy.

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Anonymous wrote:Why when a republican wins, the democrats wring their hands but when a dem wins, the Republicans say the election was stolen?

Dems said the election was stolen from Hillary.

Nice try but she conceded. You can watch the concession speech or was it faked somehow?

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Anonymous wrote:My husband voted for him. He claims he is a libertarian but usually votes R. I think his main reason was being over things like mask mandates. He generally doesn’t like Democrat fiscal plans. He is generally socially liberal - supports gay marriage, etc. On our way to the polls I said you should vote D for abortion with the upcoming SC decisions and he just said he wasn’t worried about losing the right to abortion in VA.

He is a teacher and generally does think standards in schools have been lowered.

Supporting gay marriage is not "liberal." https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same-sex-marriage.aspx (70% of Americans overall, and 55% of Republicans support gay marriage.)

Well it’s not conservative …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Education is just the “cause” that white tribalism got behind this time. The “cause” shifts around. Remember Trump voters who just had “economic insecurity?” It’s the same thing. Youngkin didn’t have any education proposals that are meaningful. Having him as Governor vs McAuliffe (who is a centrist, after all) won’t change anything meaningful about schools or what they teach or how.

It can’t always be “white tribalism” just because dems lose. There is no perfect party. Mcauliffe is a white millionaire with kids in private schools who had plenty of umc white support. He had his shot and he blew it. Youngkin only had to point out the things pissing everyone off that mcauliffe was apparently clueless about. That’s how democracy works. Youngkin might not deliver but then he’ll be fired too.

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Anonymous wrote:Education hands down. Same with my Dh

That ... doesn't make any rational sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Far left woke idealogy. We need to move back towards the center.

Whatever are you prattling on about? Have the SOLs changed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Education is just the “cause” that white tribalism got behind this time. The “cause” shifts around. Remember Trump voters who just had “economic insecurity?” It’s the same thing. Youngkin didn’t have any education proposals that are meaningful. Having him as Governor vs McAuliffe (who is a centrist, after all) won’t change anything meaningful about schools or what they teach or how.

Factually wrong. He was a supporter of building 20 charter schools and raising teacher salaries.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why when a republican wins, the democrats wring their hands but when a dem wins, the Republicans say the election was stolen?

LOL honey no its the other way around.

Is youngkin suspected of stealing this win?

Nope. Northam already congratulated him and is planning a peaceful transfer of power.