What struck me most was this paragraph in the Times story by our Texas bureau chief, J. David Goodman, about the result: Rehmet, “a machinist at a Lockheed Martin fighter jet plant in Fort Worth, said in an interview with The New York Times during the campaign that he did not like party labels and believed that voters were ‘really tired of the partisanship.’ He made his support for public education, including vocational programs, central to his campaign.”