Voters get practical on ballot measures

The way the California electorate came down Tuesday on the 10 measures on the statewide ballot shows the enormous fallacy of the national myth that voters in our state are somehow hostage in a knee-jerk way to merely progressive memes for their own sake.

To the contrary, the votes in the main showed a heartening practicality among the California citizenry, and an unusual ability to think for themselves and split the ticket, as it were, saying yes and no to some proposals that were considered...