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<blockquote data-quote="C-Note" data-source="post: 1092954" data-attributes="member: 9873">Fairfax County, a suburb of DC which is about 60% Democratic, had a special school board election this past week because one of the members (who was moderately conservative) moved away.&nbsp; The Democratic candidate won with 41,000 votes to the Republican candidate's 21,000 votes.It was a non-partisan race but each candidate had been publicly endorsed by the political parties.&nbsp; The Democratic candidate had said in the opening paragraph on her website that one of her aims was to &quot;stop Trump and DeVose&quot; policies on schools.&nbsp; Reportedly, the Democratic party threw $60 grand into the race vs $25K that the Republicans put in.&nbsp; So, I think it's an example of the Democrats trying to gain seats at the local level in key states like Virginia.Only 10% of registered voters came out.&nbsp; So, the Republicans could have won if they had just gotten more people to the polling places.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="C-Note, post: 1092954, member: 9873"] Fairfax County, a suburb of DC which is about 60% Democratic, had a special school board election this past week because one of the members (who was moderately conservative) moved away. The Democratic candidate won with 41,000 votes to the Republican candidate's 21,000 votes. It was a non-partisan race but each candidate had been publicly endorsed by the political parties. The Democratic candidate had said in the opening paragraph on her website that one of her aims was to "stop Trump and DeVose" policies on schools. Reportedly, the Democratic party threw $60 grand into the race vs $25K that the Republicans put in. So, I think it's an example of the Democrats trying to gain seats at the local level in key states like Virginia. Only 10% of registered voters came out. So, the Republicans could have won if they had just gotten more people to the polling places. [/QUOTE]

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