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DP.  What are you talking about?  In 2020, Gerry Connolly won VA-11 with 71% of the vote.  That district has never been "solidly red".  [/quote]

PP should have said 20 years ago rather than 15.  Tom Davis, a centrist Republican, won the 11th District by large margins from 1994 to 2006.  It's been solidly blue in just about all elections for over 15 years.  [/quote]

The districts have been redrawn.  Frank Wolf was my congressman until 2016.  Then Barbara Comstock, I think.  Now, I am in the 11th district--same house.

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And there was John Warner, Virginia's moderate Republican senator until 2009. He lived in Alexandria. Those days are long over.

There is nary an opening for a republican to be reelected or appointed to the FCPS, FCCPS, or APS school boards ever again.  [/quote]

I don’t believe that, and I typically voted blue. All politics is local and the school board is cutting deeply into its margins with the boundary fiasco.[/quote]

Sometimes, I think the only people paying attention to the School Board is on DCUM.  Most people are clueless.  There really is no longer any local news that people read or listen to.  The left listens to their echo chamber and the right to theirs.[/quote]

DCUM is such a small percentage of the County that it is crazy to me that people on here think that the School Board is ignoring what everyone wants. Outside of the fact that people who don't agree with the loud anti-boundary folks are not posting, for the most part, there are other ways that people communicate with the School Board and we don't know what they are saying. The loudest voice, at meetings or on this board, is not necessarily speaking for the majority. They are just talking the loudest.

I strongly suspect most people are not paying attention to the boundary changes. I know that I posted about the purchase of KAA on my neighborhood FB group when it was initially being discussed to crickets. A few weeks ago someone posted, in surprise, that it had been purchased. A few people responded to that. For the most part, no one in my neighborhood is dicsussing it even though it impacts our region. We know that the School Board ignores the surveys it puts out, probably because the people responding are the same families and the returns are not representative of the county as a whole.

I have toyed with the idea of particiapting in the Republican primaries in order to vote for the Republican Moderates because the Deomcratic candidates are rarely appealing to me.

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But you are ignoring the thousands of participants from the community meetings who overwhelmingly opposed the boundary changes. You’re right that a segment of the county isn’t paying attention, but watch how that changes when the final maps come out. Moved areas are going to be up in arms.
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Yes, the organized loud voices. Kind of like the winners of the primaries represent the entire party on the ticket when only a small percentage of people participate in the primaries. If it was that important to people, more people would take the time to vote in primaries and we might end up with more moderate candidates. Instead most people complain about who the people with the loud voices chose. No one thinks that Trump represents the majority of Republicans, but the majority of Reprublicans couldn't be bothered to show up at the primaries. The majority of the country doesn't show up to the general election.

The school board knows that the people motivated to show up at meetings and complain on message boards are that small percentage of the population with a loud voice. What people here don't want to hear is 1) Most people don't care about redistricting and 2) a good percentage of people are fine with it and thinks it needs to happen.

I was a member of the FB group for boundaries, I dropped out because I saw little happening there. I did not see a lot of conversation or even high numbers. I saw them trying to raise money and very few people donating. Really, it made clear to me that the "grass roots" organization didn't represent that many people and that there was little participation.

The anti-boundaries crowd is smaller then you think and that is why it is not going to have much of an impact. But they are happily dominating this board and talking to themselves. If anyone voices a difference they are Vanessa, that has been a new one, a school board members, from Gatehouse, or a radical who hates children. So there is no real conversation other then outrage.

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You are crazy to claim that only a "small number" of people are against boundary changes.[/quote]

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