MOT Area School Board Election Turnout Bodes Well for Harrington Upset of Hensley in the 9th RD
You can typically win an Appoquinimink School Board seat with 450 votes. Not this year. Michelle Wall got 3.5 times the usual winning number. And while schools board elections are not officially partisan, Wayne Meadows ran openly as a Trumper, so this result is clear evidence that MOT area voters are champing at the bit to punish Republicans motherfuckers at the polls.
ODESSA — Michelle Wall, 42, of Odessa, won re-election to a second, five-year term on the Appoquinimink school board July 21, defeating political newcomer Wayne Meadows by a vote of 1,370 to 806 in the largest school board election turnout of the past two decades.
Michelle Wall wins re-election to Appoquinimink Board of Education July 21.
The turnout for the 2020 election was fourfold to 2019, with 552 voting last year compared to 2,176 this year. The last election to receive nearly 2,000 voters was in 2000.
You could say, “Well, the Trumper got 2x the usual winning number” and you’d be right.
But what does it mean? Let’s look at turnout the last time Hensley faced voters.
MONIQUE JOHNS 4,899 / 41.30 %
KEVIN S HENSLEY 6,961 / 58.70 %
Assuming 2020 turnout on par with 2018, Harrington would only need 1,000 to close the gap. But what if turnout is 3.5x for dems and 2x for Republicans?
DEBBIE HARRINGTON 17,111 / 55%
KEVIN S HENSLEY 13,992 / 45%
Obviously turnout is not going be at 2018 levels and nor its it going to increase as much as it did for this school board election.
It is going to be somewhere in the middle – so jot this down and save it in-between the pages your bedside bible. Ready?
>>RD9 is going to be decided by fewer than 75 votes<<