In California, all four Arnold-backed ballot measures -- Props. 74 (teacher tenure), 75 (union speech), 76 (altering state spending procedures), and 77 (redistricting) -- failed. So did Prop. 73 (abortion notification), Prop. 78 (drug coverage without a discount from companies), Prop. 79 (drug coverage with mandatory discount from companies), and Prop. 80 (electricity re-regulation).

In Ohio, all four state constitutional amendments failed.

Texas, however, joins 18 other states in ratifying a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage; now, almost 40 percent of the country hates gays. That's promising.

And, in Pennsylvania, the school board that promoted intelligent design as an equally weighted scientific theory alongside natural selection, was tossed out by the voters. The school board is the subject of the current lawsuit Kitzmiller v. Dover, in which plaintiffs Kitzmiller, et al. challenge the teaching of intelligent design on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. The new school board consists of members who are critical of intelligent design as a scientific theory.

And in Virginia and New Jersey, voters replaced Republican governors with Democratic ones. So, it seems like we won yesterday. California, Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania did well. Ohio and Texas did not.