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California’s voters beat back looney-left’s affirmative action Proposition 16

California was a lost cause in voting for the president, but there was still a little bit of good news.

Proposition 16 failed, by a huge 56% to 44% at last count margin, smacking down yet another effort by the state’s far-left elites to foist affirmative action labeling onto California’s diverse population.

Here’s what Google had on its results (it doesn’t link to anywhere) on a keyword search for ‘Proposition 16 results,’ citing the Associated Press:

Which is a huge repudiation.

A big reason, of course, is that California has a large Asian-American population, and very large numbers were aware that any newly instituted affirmative action spoils system was going to come out of their hides. I wrote about that here. Work your hardest to win some prize, watch it handed over to someone else who has the ‘right’ color of skin as their main merit.

Read the full story from American Thinker


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