Putting A Positive Spin On It: Martin Dyckman:writes: "The most important lesson of the election wasn't that the Republicans won it so hugely. Indeed, to hear some of them afterward, you'd think that they had lost. In one sense, they had.
Their discontent owed to two of the five initiatives that voters had approved: Amendment 9, mandating smaller classes in public schools, and Amendment 11, which establishes a Board of Governors for the university system to replace the Board of Regents that the Legislature scrapped last year as part of its "seamless" educational overhaul.
The significance goes beyond the money that Amendment 9 may cost. (Amendment 11 should save a lot, if it prevents the universities from duplicating expensive graduate programs.) These, and particularly the latter, marked the first time that anybody had gotten the better of the Republicans since they took total control of Tallahassee with Jeb Bush's election four years ago. That's historic." [entire column] 7:54 AM
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Manhattan Institute: It Wasn't Bush's Fault: The Miami Herald publishes a letter to the editor from the Manhattan Institute, the right wing think tank that - after the election - issued a report showing that Florida had the worst graduation rates in the country. 7:52 AM
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