Opinion:Republicans are testing messages to reverse their suburban slide, and education is a winner

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Opinion: Republicans are testing messages to reverse their suburban slide, and education is a winner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/24/republicans-are-testing-messages-reverse-their-suburban-slide-education-is-winner/?utm_source=reddit.com

Opinion by James Hohmann, Columnist

Yesterday at 11:05 a.m. EDT

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee has been testing dozens of potential messages that might claw back suburban voters who drifted toward Democrats during Donald Trump’s presidency, and lines of attack related to education show as much potential for the midterms as inflation, immigration and crime.

I obtained a 45-slide PowerPoint recently presented to Republican senators that summarizes findings from a previously unreported internal poll of 1,200 likely voters in 2022 suburban battlegrounds. Notable results included:

Seventy-eight percent agreed that “many public-school systems in America are failing and children are falling behind the rest of the world.”

Sixty-five percent agreed that “allowing biological males to compete against women in high school and college sports is hugely unfair and will erase many of the gains women have made in athletics over the last 50 years.”


Fifty-eight percent agreed that “critical race theory should not be taught in schools” because “children should not be told they are inherently racist simply because of the color of their skin.”

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[msongs]

1. so are dems doing such testing in a coordinated comprehensive way? nt

[Scrivener7]

2. Exactly what I was wondering.

[questionseverything]

3. If manchin gets his way

And limits the child tax credit to people making under sixty grand… the repubs will get the suburbs back

In 2020 the limit was $400,000

Think of all the parents that will be disenfranchised

[elleng]

4. "many public-school systems in America are failing and children are falling behind

the rest of the world" because repugs have spent the past (50) years destroying public education in the states.

We USED to study 'social studies,' for one thing, but I'm way older than today's students; sadly, the victims include my grandchildren.

[Lovie777]

5. Nope . . ...

Most sane people know that republicans has damaged a lot of what is happening, if any. For the past 4 years education was on the chopping block just like USPO and other institutions across the USA.

I've noticed how these articles always tend to hold up the republican party and always tear down the Democratic Party. Heck as usual they are already writing that the "Build Back Better" project is a failure.

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. The whole CRT nonsense is killing us.

People have no idea that it’s a college level, law specific class. They hear the whole “it’s making white kids guilty of crimes they never committed” thing and go apeshit. I’ve had discussions on the job with guys who are furious about it and after I explain what it is and who is pushing this bullshit they calm down. I’m not sure that they believe me though. I’m guessing they get back in their car at the end of the day and listen to whatever right wing nutjob is selling the lie.

Our guys should concentrate on and push the policies that large majorities of the country agree with. The right pushes the social justice stuff because it helps them.

[Midnight Writer]

9. And our response is weak. Every response should point out that CRT is not taught in public schools.

Instead I see folks defending it, leaving the impression that it is, indeed, being taught in public schools.

[DBoon]

10. It can be very hard to oppose something that is complete fantasy

yet is strongly believed by your opponents

CRT inherently puts us into reactive mode - the whole controversy is made up out of thin air, yet somehow we have to defend ourselves against it

[wellst0nev0ter]

14. You call the CRT activists racists

and make them prove otherwise.

[wellst0nev0ter]

13. CRT is the easiest culture war to win

Was slavery wrong? Yes!

Was Jim Crow wrong? Yes!

Should that be taught in schools? Yes!

Those who suggest differently are part of the white grievance brigade that is fueling this farce.

[WarGamer]

7. The mid-terms will be tough...

[MFM008]

11. The gop

Still have a year to F things up.
Alot will also hinge on the supreme court overturning
ROE as well to boost democratic turnout.

[Xolodno]

8. I wouldn't be surprised if..

...someone in that meeting said "if we give everyone a good education, then they won't vote for us".

[maxrandb]

12. How you get a 58% response from dogs

"Critical canine theory should not be taught in schools" because "dogs should not be told they are inherent evil simply because they bark at cats"

Fifty-eight percent agreed that “critical race theory should not be taught in schools” because “children should not be told they are inherently racist simply because of the color of their skin.”

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. The Trumplicans lost their war against gay people and now they are going after trans people.

Sixty-five percent agreed that “allowing biological males to compete against women in high school and college sports is hugely unfair and will erase many of the gains women have made in athletics over the last 50 years.”

That's a loaded question for starters.

[malletgirl02]

16. Any one thinking

about handing over the government to the Republicans over education better take a look at the Georgia education system first.