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Trends & Numbers: Newspapers Deliver an Informed Electorate




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The late House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill’s famous quote, “All politics is local,” might be a tired cliché among the electoral cognoscenti. But it reflects basic facts of life for many citizens. My neighborhood of 908 homes in Northern Virginia just emerged from eight months of passionate public wrangling over school redistricting. The battle not only involved school board elections but also post-election public hearings, parental lobbying and other forms of agitation that played out in media coverage.