On election night, the pollsters and pundits predicted that charter champion Marshall Tuck would beat teachers’ choice Tony Thurmond in the race for State Superintendent of Instruction in California.
Tuck’s campaign raised twice as much as Thurmond. The charter billionaires gave Tuck’s campaign at least $30 million.
On election night, Tuck had a sizable lead: 82,000 votes.
But millions of votes had not been counted.
As the counting continues, the gap between them continues to narrow.
In the count reported tonight, the difference between them was only 0.2%.
Of 7 million votes counted, the difference between them was fewer than 21,000 votes.
The counting is not finished.
This race is not over.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hooray, hope they keep counting.
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7:04 update! Tony’s ahead! 50.5 to 49.5! Hallelujah!
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Do you have a link?
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Dang, guess it’s a reporting error from Kern co. Still going right wat though!
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No indeed. Tony is ahead 50.5 to 49.5 – ahead by 65,576 votes.
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Marshall Tuck had an ad that I got from a friend on Facebook just a couple of days before the election. The ad was very deceptive, leading people to believe that he was the candidate that teachers and parents were behind. It never said a word about him being an advocate for charter schools.
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So much of his advertising was negative and misleading.
He did not have the endorsement of the Democratic party. Thurmond did.
He was endorsed by Arne Duncan and tried to parlay that into proof that he was a seasoned educator, like Arne.
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Except that he had the support of lots of Democrats, including Democrats that the California Teachers Assn has endorsed in the past. I don’t know who advises CTA, but there have been races in my area where the union has chosen to not endorse anyone, including the viable progressive, and the charter-loving DINO won. Unbelievable. And until recently, CTA was giving these people good grades! The union needs to get its act together.
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so often that’s the thing left out: if they SUPPORT charter/choice/vouchers, why is it that they are now so careful to hide this from the public….
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The CA Secretary of State’s office has Marshall Tuck leading by a little less than 30000 voted as of 11/11. Votes will be counted today 11/12. https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/superintendent-of-public-instruction
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