Election '07: Voters Prove Their Sanity By A.J. DiCintio

I’m tempted to react to Tuesday’s elections by pointing out that having heard a number of the results, Homer Simpson is gloating, “Wrong again, Liberal media!” However, given the seriousness of the only legitimate process by which law is made or changed (Washington’s “explicit and authentic act of the whole people”) I’ll control my emotions to say simply that somewhere Thomas Jefferson is smiling.

Indeed, how could Jefferson, who wrote, “The people...are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty,” do anything but smile after learning, for example, that by a landslide (60%-40%) Oregon voters rejected a proposal to amend the state constitution to raise cigarette taxes an astounding 84.5 cents a pack (yes, including the additional insult of the ha’penny) to provide health care for low-income children, families, and individuals.

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