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As we count votes in California and wherever, one thing about the 2022 election was certain: the parents showed up to vote. This is from Paul Zimmerman: Â
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In fact, data suggest that victorious Republican candidates received a boost from parental frustration with prolonged school closures in their districts.Â
In Georgia’s Fulton County, where Atlanta schools remained closed through May 2021, and Chatham County, where Savannah’s schools stayed closed during the same time period, Governor Kemp siphoned off an extra four to five percent of voters in 2022 as compared to Donald Trump’s performance in 2020.Â
Nevada’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak, competing with now-Governor-elect Joe Lombardo, performed worse than President Biden in 2020 by three percentage points in both Clark and Elko Counties — both of which remained closed for portions of the 2020–21 school year.
