Republicans most trusted on education

[HedonistForever]

Something I have been saying ever since the Governor's race in Virginia, Republicans are now trusted more than Democrats when it comes to education. You would have to be a complete fool, which now encompasses most of the Democrat party, to not see this coming.


https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2022-07-20/democrats-cede-party-of-education-label-to-gop-poll


Democrats are losing the trust of voters on K-12 education issues, and in battleground states there are signs they’ve ceded that trust altogether to the GOP – a historic reversal that comes just months ahead of midterm elections on an issue the Democratic Party has historically dominated.


Polling released by the Democrats for Education Reform – a national political organization that backs Democratic candidates who support charter schools, more equitable school funding models, standardized testing and other reform-friendly policies – shows that likely voters in 62 congressional battleground districts no longer trust Democrats over Republicans on issues related to education.




“This poll shows that Democrats’ historic advantage on education has been erased,” says Matt Hogan, a partner at Impact Research, the firm that conducted the poll. “While Democrats typically enjoyed a double-digit advantage on which party was more trusted on education before the pandemic, voters in these battleground districts now narrowly trust Republicans more on the issue.”

Indeed, the poll found that 43% of likely voters said they trust Democrats on issues of education compared to 47% who said they trust Republicans.


Notably, the poll was conducted between June 14 and June 21, prior to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade – the 1973 landmark decision that for nearly half a century has protected a woman’s right to access abortion, which many polical strategists are predicting will give Democrats an edge that they previously didn’t have.

Yet the poll reveals an ongoing and potentially deeper and calcifying problem for Democrats, who have long assumed the role as the party of education: The trust gap widens among parents, with Democrats trailing by 9 percentage points, and among voters of color, with Democrats trailing Republicans by 10 percentage points.

Those figures, the polling researchers underscored, represent a steep drop-off from before the pandemic, when Democrats enjoyed a double-digit advantage on education. Data pulled from the poll’s focus groups of swing voters showed a lack of awareness for Democrats’ priorities on public education and a perception that educational funding is misallocated.
Among other things, the poll also found that voters want lawmakers to focus on helping students make up lost ground from the pandemic but think both parties – and especially Democrats – are more focused on how race and gender issues are taught in schools: 47% believe Republicans are too focused on race and gender compared to 54% who think Democrats are too focused on race and gender.


“This poll should raise alarm bells for Democrats,” says Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries.

“Our nation is facing an education crisis of historic proportions,” he says. “Voters are clearly frustrated and eager for leaders who will embrace innovation to enable students to recover from the pandemic and succeed in their futures.”

But the crisis for Democrats has been months in the making.

Political strategists have been sounding the alarm since the 2021 off-year election, during which Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a Virginia gubernatorial race that featured education as the hallmark issue driving voters to the polls, as well as a New Jersey race in which incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy was nearly ousted in the same fashion.

Since then, heaps of public opinion polling have hinted at an erosion in voters trusting that Democrats offer the best path forward for the country’s public school system.

Though typically far down on the list of issues driving voters to the polls, education is set to play an elevated role during the looming election season in the wake of two years of pandemic schooling that locked students out of classrooms, drove steep academic declines and unearthed an alarming mental health crisis among adolescents.

Republicans effectively capitalized on the narrative in 2021 by casting it as an issue of diminishing parental rights – a successful strategy that served as much as a wake-up call for the Democratic Party that it had a major messaging problem as it was a validation of conservatives’ playbook.

[dilbert firestorm]

this has been building for a few years when parents noticed the strange going ons in their school system.


Democrat apparatus got caught with their pants down with their bullshit education policies which has an indoctrination agenda. the democrat arrogance is quite revealing.

[HedonistForever]

My Democrat friend sent me an article, usually two a week, on the evils of the Republican party and now that the talking points have gone out to all good Democrats, DeSantis must be crucified at every opportunity.


He sends me an article that headlines "DeSantis banning books in Florida classrooms". So I asked him if he was aware that these were Math books which were deemed inappropriate for Florida school children because CRT and transgenderism have now become part of the Math curriculum. He admitted, he was not aware of that fact but that it didn't matter because it was still BANNING BOOKS!


And he is still very, very upset about DeSantis fight with Disney. He literally can not finish a conversation now without saying that Disney should move it's whole operation out of Florida. All I can do is laugh.

[Jacuzzme]

Move Disney to New York so park goers can freeze to death on test track 4 months a year. Brilliant.

[Yssup Rider]

Horse manure.

I don’t buy it and neither will voters. Poll or no poll.

GOP school boards are pushing our schools back into the Stone Age. Fact.

[bb1961]

FACTS??...like you posting threads ad nauseum that Trump is going to jail.
You sir are in no position to talk about FACTS, but that never stops you from that FACTLESS nonsense ...
"fueled by heaters"...the TDS crowd which you're a proud member of!!

[Yssup Rider]

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