Election Results Validate Everyone’s PriorsToo woke! Despite their often being idiosyncratic reasons for particular outcomes (as Steven Taylor has been trying to detail in his Election 2021 Context series) it’s just too tempting to look to the results for clues. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Wash. It is true that exit polls showed education and critical race theory as important issues to Virginia voters. And when you zoom out, the pattern of the night’s results is not consistent with a CRT-focused explanation.

Source: New York Times November 05, 2021 19:48 UTC