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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s a truly an abysmal state. I agree that no ones gives a sh*t in DC about the educational repercussions of the prolonged school closures. Even Dems without kids don’t seem to care. It has made me truly question being a D. Not that I’m going to become an R, just that I have lost a lot of faith in Ds supposed support for education.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you think Republicans are suddenly talking so much about education? Because there are a lot of people pissed off about school closures. Any Democrat in DC who says "parents and kids first" and gives the middle finger to the teachers union will *easily* defeat Bowser.

But, as pointed out upthread, parents with kids presently in school make up only about 20 percent of DC residents. Of course, if you could mobilize them all, or a significant chunk, that could make a difference.

I don't know -- what are the general demographics of people who vote in DC (if they are substantially different from the general populace)? What percentage of people vote in non-Presidential years?

Hardly anyone votes in mayoral primaries, especially in non-presidential years. Bowser got less than 62,000 votes in her 2018 primary. There are 100,000 public and charter school students in D.C. Those children have more than 200,000 parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc.

idk man, you'd have to find a Black politician giving the middle finger to the teachers' union....

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you think Republicans are suddenly talking so much about education? Because there are a lot of people pissed off about school closures. Any Democrat in DC who says "parents and kids first" and gives the middle finger to the teachers union will *easily* defeat Bowser.

But, as pointed out upthread, parents with kids presently in school make up only about 20 percent of DC residents. Of course, if you could mobilize them all, or a significant chunk, that could make a difference.

I don't know -- what are the general demographics of people who vote in DC (if they are substantially different from the general populace)? What percentage of people vote in non-Presidential years?

Hardly anyone votes in mayoral primaries, especially in non-presidential years. Bowser got less than 62,000 votes in her 2018 primary. There are 100,000 public and charter school students in D.C. Those children have more than 200,000 parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think Republicans are suddenly talking so much about education? Because there are a lot of people pissed off about school closures. Any Democrat in DC who says "parents and kids first" and gives the middle finger to the teachers union will *easily* defeat Bowser.

But, as pointed out upthread, parents with kids presently in school make up only about 20 percent of DC residents. Of course, if you could mobilize them all, or a significant chunk, that could make a difference.

I don't know -- what are the general demographics of people who vote in DC (if they are substantially different from the general populace)? What percentage of people vote in non-Presidential years?

Why do you think Republicans are suddenly talking so much about education? Because there are a lot of people pissed off about school closures. Any Democrat in DC who says "parents and kids first" and gives the middle finger to the teachers union will *easily* defeat Bowser.

im shocked at how few people run for mayor or the city council. bowser & co. are not actually good at their jobs. they are only in office because so few people bother challenging them.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

Please stop going after Bowser or we will end up with Trayon as mayor.

I don't see that T. White has any path to being mayor. He'd have to beat Bowser in the D primary and he won't. Anyone running against Bowser is going to have to run as a "not D".

It so sad that we are going to have to be happy with the dregs of the political barrel, per usual, in DC.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

Please stop going after Bowser or we will end up with Trayon as mayor.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people have such pent up anger? Our kids are back in school full time with very little disruption so far this year.

Is this a real question? Do you really not know?

Yes I really do not know. Why are people dwelling on the past?

Well, for starters it's not like we woke up and everything was hunky dory. Even more kids are behind. The education gap between white and Black kids has gotten wider. Teachers talk about having to deal with more behavioral issues, even with young kids. So things that are repercussions of prolonged school closings are present today. A lot of that could have been avoided.

Then there was the 1.5 years spent being told how if we want schools to follow the science and open with mitigations, it was only because we hated our children. Our concerns were completely denigrated. It was pretty vicious, if you didn't see it. Women had to leave the workforce to care for kids at home. I'm personally still digging out of the financial hole created by last year's school closures. But the response to a mother saying "I don't know how to take care of my kids and work out of the house" was met with "why don't you love your children" or "make it work".