The share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who believe that President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win was not legitimate has ticked back up, according to a new CNN poll fielded throughout July. All told, 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Biden’s win was not legitimate, up from 63% earlier this year and through last fall, even as there is no evidence of election fraud that would have altered the outcome of the contest.

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    Not to defend No Child Left Behind but it was only a 2002 law, the majority of these people are too old to have been in school since its passage.

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      But if it wasn’t for that, republicans wouldn’t be getting elected still…

      Obviously I didn’t mean the only people who believe this shit is the kids from No Child, mostly because red states were already doing it on a state level.

      But there’s enough of them that it’s keeping republicans in office where they wouldn’t be without it.

      Very very few problems have a single cause, again, I thought that was so obvious it wouldn’t need to be explained. But here we are…

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      Yes but that change affected anyone in school at the time as well. No Child Left Behind touched the schooling of people up to the age of 38. That’s roughly half of Americans. You would need to remove people not of voting age, but the impact is still huge.

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        It was repealed & replaced in 2015 anyway so it was only in effect for 13 years and over half of states had waivers for it by then anyway. Once again not defending the state of public education or laws passed affecting it, just making sure we all know the facts.