Not a big loss in percentage terms. Dave Napierskie, the candidate for a two-year(unexpired) seat on the Board lost by 26 votes 2,516 to 2,542. The three DOVER CARES 2-year candidates got 2,670, 2,658 and 2,623 and three incumbents got 2,545, 2,544 and 2,466. For the 4-year seats Dover CARES 2,754, 2,716, 2,677 AND 2,625. The top incumbent was only 41 votes behind at 2,584. The others got 2,547, 2,526 and 2,469. The media (Our 'YORK DAILY RECTUM') gave that big headline at the top of its page. The teachers held a rally outside the school board meeting Monday to say they weren't ashamed of the union demand for a 19 percent pay raise this year. That issue was beginning to gain traction and I feel the incumbents are a viable opposition, especially when this Pennsylvania State Education Association bought school board (Nearly 5-thousand dollars to Dover CARES) starts up the spending and raising the taxes. Five seats up in two years.
That's the point though. In a conservative district, with a 19% pay raise and property tax hike threatened, the Republicans still lost. This is the kind of district in which Dems shouldn't even be able to field a candidate. Thanks to the creationist agenda pushed by the school board, the Dems found a window of oppportunity, and won.
Such an extreme demand should have finished the liberal-Democrat-teacher's union candidate. The fact that it didn't shows just how heavily the ID pseudo-science albatross hung around the incumbents' necks.
Eight out of nine of the members of the "ID" supporting school boardwere up for re-election.
100% of them were defeated. Eight out of eight -- every single one of them was given their walking papers by the voters.
Deal with *that* "big loss in percentage terms", and stop trying to spin it.