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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last forum on the planet where you will find wisdom on DC local politics is DCUM.  Sorry, ladies, but the overwhelming majority of DC voters are not rich white people who send their kids to Janney.  DC voters aren't going to bend to your whims like the idiots in Virginia.

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I have to wonder if this sort of sexist condescension is meant to push women to the Right?  There have been 1,000 threads about how this sort of language got the suburban moms to vote for Youngkin.  [/quote]

I doubt anyone is doing deliberate agitprop on DCUM. However, I also wonder how many suburban mom-type voters really turn out in D.C. primary elections. Turnout in the 2018 primary was 18 percent, and it wasn't higher than 25 percent in any ward. [/quote]

But I doubt anyone running against Bowser to the right is going to run as a D.[/quote]

Then they'll have even less chance of winning. A decent chunk of the bloc of voters that you might expect to be the base of an independent or Republican bid for mayor based on school closures pays little attention to D.C. elections and will vote for Bowser based on name ID and party label. Add to that the fact that most voters in D.C. don't have school-aged kids and thus won't be open to a single-issue candidate around schools, and the fact that it's not even unanimous among parents of school-aged children that the schools should have been open last year (it's not even unanimous among DCUM parents!), and good luck with your campaign.[/quote]

1. Hardly anyone votes in mayoral primaries especially in off years. Bowser got less than 62,000 votes in the primary last time around. There's more than 200,000 people who have kids in DC public and charter schools.

2. People are pissed off about schools and people who are pissed off vote. Look what happened in Virginia and New Jersey. That is a preview of what is going to happen across the country in every election between now and next November.

3. No one has to run as a Republican or a conservative or anything like that. They can run as a Democrat and say Bowser and the City Council got schools terribly and unforgivably wrong and should be voted out.

4. There's an obvious opportunity here for someone new. Politicians in the city government are not very good at their jobs. They're like minor league baseball players who will never ever get called up to the big leagues. Between that and anger over schools and crime too, there's an obvious opening here for someone new to come in and run under the banner of change. Will they take it? Who can say?[/quote]

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