The Education Establishment’s tried-and-true Hobson’s Choice1 tactic2 carries the day — although much closer than they thought, at about 54 percent to 46 percent (94 percent of precincts in).
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Notes
1. From Dictionary.com:
The origin of the term Hobson’s choice is said to be in the name of one Thomas Hobson (ca. 1544-1631), at Cambridge, England, who kept a livery stable and required every customer to take either the horse nearest the stable door or none at all.
2. Here was the Wake County voter’s one and only option: raise taxes on yourself to spend gobs to cover just 1/15th of new enrollment expected, make some renovations, and blow the rest on frivolous projects. Take it or leave it. But if you leave it, you “hate kids.”
