Funyuns and Mountain Dew

Orange County: afloat on a sea of idiots.


That would be the map for Prop. 76 (budget reform), which, as expected, has been easily defeated.

A single reform initiative is still breathing - Prop. 75 (union dues), which is just barely passing at 50.3% 'yes'. But that's with only 8.4% of Los Angeles reporting. Orange and San Bernardino are still relatively early in their counts, but I doubt they'll make up the difference (especially not with the Bay-Area counties of Contra Costa and Alameda still counting).

On the bright side, California voters surprised me by emphatically rejecting the return of full energy industry regulation, and putting aside their communist sympathies for one night in deciding to not outlaw profit motive.

But none of that changes the fact that with each passing election, Nevada and Arizona keep looking like nicer places to live.

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