Last night the Right got its nose smacked with a rolled up news paper by the voters in several states. While we had some electoral victories as Democrats I think that it is the initiatives that told the real story.
Personhood in Mississippi failed. That is really good news as this was the state that was most likely to pass such a thing according the Conventional Wisdom. This is not the first time that this kind of amendment has been voted down, it was on the ballot twice in Colorado and was rejected both times.
The folks in Ohio basically told their Governor to sit down and stop being a dick about the rights of labor to organize. Again a good thing but not as unexpected as the result in the Magnolia State.
Then there was the restoration of same day voter registration in Maine. This had been one of the Republican successes in their war on voting, but the people of the Pine Tree State decided that they had seen no evidence of voter fraud from nearly four decades of this policy and put it back in place.
What all this tells us is there is indeed a floor beyond which the voters are not willing to go in terms of allowing the Republicans to have their way. It would be a teachable moment for elected Republicans but they don’t seem to be teachable in any fashion, but maybe it is a teachable moment for registered Republicans.