High Point Enterprise says supporters of Davidson County’s quarter-cent sales tax hike should take a bow.

Locker Room’s Sarah Curry takes a closer look at the numbers:

The tax increase passed with 56 percent of the voters approving the tax. Total voter turnout for the sales tax issue was 15,827 people out of a population of 163,420 for the county as a whole.

Davidson County has just over 100,000 registered voters, so either way you look at it a small percentage of the citizens passed a tax hike for everybody. Of course in a perfect world, 100 percent of registered voters would turn out for a mid-term primary, but that’s just not reality. A cynic might say that exactly what tax hike supporters were counting on.

By the same token, sale tax hikes went 1 for 4 on Tuesday. That batting average won’t get you a lot of money in the big leagues.

For what it’s worth, Guilford County Board of Education member Ed Price thinks according to the Rhino– a sales tax hike for schools would be a “funding mechanism that would eliminate the yearly public relations fight between the school board and the Board of Commissioners.”

School board’s going to need all the good PR it can get, especially with the revelation of $2.2 million in travel spending for “professional development.”