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...midst of an identity crisis, and the races for Speaker and Majority Leader are a rare chance for Republican leaders to hold a referendum on their party's future. Returning social conservatives to these positions will only reaffirm the current leadership's increasingly extremist stance on gay rights and abortion, to name a few issues. The party would be better off heeding the message voters sent Tuesday and finding a more moderate leader...
With the passage of a citizen referendum in the proud state of Arizona, that great scourge of the rooster community, cockfighting is on its way out of the culture and into the history books. Indeed, voters turned out in record numbers to ban inter-fowl combat, and organizers cited the public's growing distaste for bloody feathers as the main reason for the measure's overwhelming success...
Still, not all were pleased with the results of the referendum. A spokesperson for the reigning cock-fighting champion relayed his client's distaste for the people's vote, vowing to take the sport even further underground, into even dirtier back rooms of even seedier bars. All parties expect a court battle in the months ahead...
While there were several disappointments on Tuesday, including the election of Jesse "the Body" Ventura as governor of Minnesota and the success of an anti-affirmative action referendum in Washington state, on the whole, these midterm elections have had a cleansing effect on American politics...
...similarly lackluster California gubernatorial primary fight in June nonetheless yielded an extraordinary turnout of Latino voters on election day. Propelled in large part by the controversial Proposition 227 referendum on bilingual education, the Latino vote was up a whopping 50 percent over the gubernatorial primary only four years before when the equally distasteful anti-immigrant Proposition 187 came before the state's voters...