Credit where it’s due. When Politico manages to suppress that impulse toward Page Six that turns it into Tiger Beat on the Potomac, attention must be paid. So it is with this piece that illustrates a completely overlooked—and an undeniably important—aspect of the Democratic party’s nationwide sweep in the recent demi-midterm elections.

From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems and in political battlegrounds. They emphasized test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries. The result was a set of election results at the local level that accentuated the punishment meted out against Republicans by swing voters earlie

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