What do you even write when the most powerful lobbying force in your state not only loses a pivotal election, but gets their heads handed to them?
The immediate reaction is shock.
The secondary reaction is that something may be changing; that we could be seeing a generational shift where the pressure politics of the past don’t work anymore.
In January, when more than two-thirds of our state representatives and senators put the Value Them Both Amendment on the ballot, it looked like the proposition that couldn’t possibly lose.