Our editorial Friday and other commentaries and editorials on this page, in discussing the Democrats’ big day Tuesday, have warned against misreading what the electorate had in mind.
Voters clearly wanted to send a message that they thought they would be getting lower prices when they voted for now-President Donald Trump, and haven’t. They thought they were voting for a president who didn’t want foreign entanglements, but got involved in one. But what they also wanted to say was that the Democrats for whom they voted ought not go back to their previous foolishness and try to resurrect policies the American people didn’t want then, and don’t want now.
The Tennessee Star enumerated several cases in point.
› Tennessee voters, for example, ousted a Republican congressman and six GOP state representatives but voted decisively for a constitutional amendment that would keep the state from enacting a property tax. Democrats opposed the amendment, saying the state needed the option of the tax just in case something catastrophic happened and the state needed money.
› Next-door, North Carolina voters easily elected as senator their former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, replacing a Republican, but gave a constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to vote 60% support. As we have said previously in this space, national polls testing photo IDs for voting always get majority support from Republicans, Democrats and independents, and Blacks, whites and Hispanics.