Election results - some good, some baffling

Cheers to the voters of Dover, Pennsylvania. In a city that has a lawsuit going over Intelligent Design (ID), ALL EIGHT school board members, each of whom supported ID, lost their election. The message from voters was clear. Get the hell out, fundies. You can believe in creationism if you want. That's fine, but it has no place in a science classroom.

In baffling results though, Ohio and California both had initiatives on the ballot to put district drawing in the hands of independent boards instead of the politicians running for election in those districts. In other words, they were going to trash gerrymandering, the corrupt practice that keeps incumbents in power. Gerrymandering is why at the national level we have a 98% incumbency rate in Congress despite the fact that their approval ratings are almost always low. Yet when two states try to get rid of gerrymandering, at least at the state level, the voters actually said NO. Seriously, what the hell? I'm completely baffled. I expect politicians to cling to their power through this corrupt crap, but I never expected the voters to be in favor of it. In Ohio the initiative was voted down by a whopping 70% to 30%. Is that state completely filled with morons? In California it was a bit closer, but still losing 56% to 44%. Sigh.