{"id":938367,"date":"2021-10-29T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938367"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:59:02","slug":"washington-post-poll-education-no-1-issue-in-virginia-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-poll-education-no-1-issue-in-virginia-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Poll: Education No. 1 Issue in Virginia Governor\u2019s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-poll-education-no-1-issue-in-virginia-governors-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938367&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1233449643-1-e1635535902781-639x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>**Warning: Graphic Images**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist James Hohmann tweeted the news Friday the newspaper\u2019s poll shows \u201ceducation\u201d is now \u201cthe No. 1 issue for Virginia voters in the governor\u2019s race, edging out the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn September, education voters favored McAuliffe by 33 points, but now they tilt toward Youngkin by nine points,\u201d Hohmann wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.211009174312\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our new Washington Post poll shows that EDUCATION is now the No. 1 issue for Virginia voters in the governor&#8217;s race, edging out the economy. <\/p>\n<p>In September, education voters favored McAuliffe by 33 points, but now they tilt toward Youngkin by nine points.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JgBtcyTkR\">https:\/\/t.co\/9JgBtcyTkR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameshohmann\/status\/1454088492909096963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <em>Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.68345323741\">\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>-Schar School poll, which was conducted Oct. 20-26, finds a larger share of voters saying education is the top issue in their vote compared with the September poll, with fewer citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/o\/jjAsw\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a> as the biggest factor in their decision. The survey interviewed 918 likely voters reached by professional interviewers on cellphones and landlines, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Virginia gubernatorial race between former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin comes as parents are fully engaged in local education issues, many battling against woke school boards and local school officials promoting the teaching of concepts associated with Critical Race Theory (CRT) and LGBTQ activism, and insisting on mask mandates for all children in schools.<\/p>\n<p>If education is the primary issue in the governor\u2019s race, it may boil down to a view of who is ultimately in charge of children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,\u201d McAuliffe stated emphatically during a debate with Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,\u201d the Democrat asserted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.660130718954\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terry McAuliffe should learn Virginia law. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VAgov<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a7 1-240.1. Rights of parents.<br \/>A parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent&#8217;s child. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0EDigYoCze\">https:\/\/t.co\/0EDigYoCze<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shFwGDg8Lf\">pic.twitter.com\/shFwGDg8Lf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin\/status\/1443037359419924482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>But Youngkin countered, \u201cI believe parents should be in charge of their kids\u2019 education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While McAuliffe has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/27\/award-winning-sexually-explicit-books-terry-mcauliffe-kept-in-virginia-school-libraries\/\">accused<\/a> Youngkin of spending campaign time \u201cfocused on banning award-winning books from our schools &amp; silencing the voices of Black authors,\u201d Youngkin observed the former governor vetoed a bill that would have required parental notification of books available to children that included sexually explicit content.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.2975609756098\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glenn Youngkin\u2019s far-right social agenda is WRONG for Virginia. From abortion rights to same-sex marriage to book banning. He wants to take us back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerryMcAuliffe\/status\/1453346407948169221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Consequently, controversial books that were kept on the shelves in Virginia schools included <em>Gender Queer<\/em>&nbsp;by Maia Kobabe, which contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters, including oral sex and masturbation, involving children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>**Warning: Graphic Images**<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.32\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the full spread of the \u201cbeloved\u201d and \u201caward winning\u201d books that \u201cracist\u201d Virginia parents want out of their kids schools.<\/p>\n<p>Vote McAuliffe if you want more of this. Vote Youngkin if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as simple as that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j4BtNRwblx\">pic.twitter.com\/j4BtNRwblx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marina Medvin \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarinaMedvin\/status\/1452882310714601473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another book,&nbsp;<em>Lawn Boy<\/em>, contains graphic descriptions of sex between men and children.<\/p>\n<p>In late September, the Fairfax County school district finally <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/school-system-pulls-books-graphic-sex-libraries-80219516\">removed<\/a>&nbsp;these two books from its libraries after parents protested.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s race is down to the wire as Loudoun County Public Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/loudoun-county-sheriff-investigating-multiple-incidents-of-inappropriate-touching-in-middle-school\/\">continues<\/a> to make headlines with multiple scandals.<\/p>\n<p>High school students chanting \u201cLoudoun County protects rapists\u201d held a walkout this week following a decision by Juvenile Court Judge Pamela Brooks that found a high school boy, dressed in a skirt, is guilty of forcible sodomy and forcible fellatio in a sexual assault on a girl in the girls\u2019 bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>The same boy has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/entertainment\/television\/programs\/get-up-dc\/students-and-teachers-in-loudoun-county-plan-to-walkout-of-class-in-support-of-sexual-assault-victim\/65-5617d315-9586-41ce-8ab7-29a130f1f3e5\">charged<\/a>&nbsp;with a more recent sexual assault this month of another girl at another Loudoun County high school.<\/p>\n<p>However, Scott Smith, whose daughter was assaulted during the first incident in May, became a central focus of the story of parents\u2019 struggles with school officials when, on June 22, he was dragged out of a school board meeting and arrested after hearing school officials supportive of transgender bathrooms deny there had been reports of sexual assaults in these spaces.<\/p>\n<p>LCPS Superintendent Scott Ziegler also stated he was unaware of any assaults happening in the bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported last week, Ziegler later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/16\/loudoun-county-school-superintendent-admits-failed-effort-to-provide-a-safe-environment-left-wing-board-member-resigns\/\">acknowledged<\/a>, following parents\u2019 outrage, the school district has \u201cfailed\u201d to provide safety for its students.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8481375358166\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that a judge ruled it was rape\u2026 &amp; the rapist admitted he wore a skirt into the girls\u2019 bathroom\u2026 &amp; the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASB<\/a> apologized for its political memo\u2026 will AG <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Garland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Garland<\/a> admit his mistake in targeting parents &amp; will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerryMcAuliffe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TerryMcAuliffe<\/a> own this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LoudounScandal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LoudounScandal<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VirginiaDemocrats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VirginiaDemocrats<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IWgRO7HNSm\">https:\/\/t.co\/IWgRO7HNSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1452754967886958597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith and his wife are demanding an apology from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) for characterizing parents who are outraged about actions taken by their local school boards and school officials as \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSBA letter was crafted by Chip Slaven, NSBA\u2019s interim executive director and CEO, and Viola Garcia, the association\u2019s president, who, emails obtained later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/21\/emails-reveal-nsba-top-officers-worked-white-house-letter-targeting-parents-domestic-terrorists\/\">revealed<\/a>, informed the association\u2019s board of directors they had worked with the White House prior to sending their September 29 letter to President Joe Biden, requesting federal law enforcement use the PATRIOT Act to target parents voicing concerns at school board meetings as \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another report yesterday, however, by the Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/loudoun-county-sheriff-investigating-multiple-incidents-of-inappropriate-touching-in-middle-school\/\">indicated<\/a> yet another investigation is underway following multiple reported incidents of a male student inappropriately touching students at a district middle school.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.9280575539568\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terry McAuliffe was asked a simple question: &#8220;If you win, how are you going to work with those parents who have concerns about how things are being taught in schools?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His answer says it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VAgov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51q1TE2mNK\">pic.twitter.com\/51q1TE2mNK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin\/status\/1453367760734629897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama, who was in Virginia last weekend campaigning for McAuliffe,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/24\/barack-obama-calls-outcry-loudoun-county-rape-coverup-phony-trumped-up-culture-war\/\">dismissed<\/a>&nbsp;the issues parents have raised at school board meetings as&nbsp;\u201cfake outrage,\u201d and \u201ctrumped-up culture wars,\u201d as Breitbart News reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Warning: Graphic Images** Washington Post columnist James Hohmann tweeted the news Friday the newspaper\u2019s poll shows \u201ceducation\u201d is now \u201cthe No. 1 issue for Virginia voters in the governor\u2019s race, 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