(Roll Call)
As voters across the country made their choices last year on ballot issues and political candidates, a disconnect emerged.
While Democrats in Colorado swept statewide races, voters sent a different message on taxes and spending by rejecting ballot measures endorsed by Democrats that would have increased revenue for education and transportation.
Missouri voters embraced traditionally liberal policies and raised the minimum wage, allowed for the use of medicinal marijuana and repealed an anti-union law, but Republican candidates dominated and an incumbent Democratic senator was booted.
Doug Ducey, Arizona’s Republican governor, easily won re-election, even as voters handily rejected a referendum he backed that would have increased funding for private school vouchers.
In deep-blue Washington state, popular Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee put his political capital behind a measure to establish the nation’s first carbon tax. Voters defeated it by 13 percentage points. Read more
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