Candidates critical of a Wake County school diversity policy swept three school board seats in Tuesday's elections and a fourth, crucial seat appears headed to a runoff.
The school board races are nonpartisan, although the Wake County Republican Party endorsed the three candidates who won in those races.
Veteran Democratic consultant Gary Pearce wonders if the strong showing of the "bad guys" is a sign of things to come in next year's Congressional and state legislative election. He said Monday on his Talking About Politics blog that in 1993 Republican Tom Fetzer won the Raleigh mayoral race, the vanguard of what became a big Republican rout.
In 1993, like this year, Democrats had just won the presidential election. They were still celebrating, and they were complacent.
Just like this year, Republicans were angry and motivated. Fetzer (with Carter’s help) found a perfect issue in the downtown civic center. Fetzer ran a modern TV campaign while Democrats ran the familiar old handshake campaign.
It was a sign of worse to come in 1994. And tomorrow may be the canary in the coal mine for 2010.
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