11-6: In Trump-loving Newport Beach, the faithful make no apologies

✅In Trump-loving Newport Beach, the faithful make no apologies -- It is a sentiment widely felt in this coastal cradle of wealth where Trump’s well-heeled supporters have clung to hope this week with the election results up in the air. On Tuesday, they thrilled as the president seemed headed toward a polls-busting victory. By Wednesday, uncertainty crept in. By Thursday, optimism waned. Hailey Branson-Potts in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/6/20 

✅Arellano: In Orange County, pretending coronavirus is fake news wins you elections -- For the last four years, reporters and politicos have descended upon my native Orange County like detectives at a murder scene. The victim: O.C.’s reputation as a GOP kingmaker. Gustavo Arellano in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/6/20 

✅Coronavirus updates: California reports highest one-day case total since late August -- Though it remains too early to definitively call it a surge, California’s coronavirus activity is growing more concerning by the day. Michael McGough in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 11/6/20 

✅California proves it’s not as liberal as you think -- The myth of lockstep liberal California took a hit this election. Jeremy B. White Politico -- 11/6/20 

     Voters in the deep-blue state rejected a progressive push to reinstate affirmative action, sided with technology companies over organized labor and rejected rent control. They are poised to reject a business tax that had been a decades long priority for labor unions and Democratic leaders....

✅Powerful, wealthy interest groups keep tight grip on California proposition system -- California voters were first empowered to govern by ballot measure in 1911. But it took almost seven decades and the anti-tax crusade of a cantankerous, fist-shaking businessman to reveal the political strength of a direct democracy tool that has come to redefine the state’s politics ever since. John Myers in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/5/20

✅What Community Colleges Won and Lost on Nov. 3 

Education in Maryland and Colorado could get a financial boost from voters' decisions, but California's community colleges lose out. 

—Inside Higher Ed 

     … Proposition 15 in California suffered a narrow loss, with the Associated Press reporting 51.7 percent of votes opposed. The proposition would have taxed commercial properties worth more than $3 million at their fair market value, rather than the value at the time they were purchased. It was a revision of Proposition 13, passed in 1978. Opponents argued that it would have serious ramifications on businesses due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic…. 

✅In State Races Across America, the Status Quo Prevailed. Here’s What That Means for Higher Ed. 

—CHE