Tide Turns for the Better in N.J., Ohio Budget Votes

If this is the age of the angry voter, somebody had better tell the people of New Jersey and Ohio.

Voters in both those states were unusually supportive of recent spending referendums put on the ballot by school districts.

In New Jersey, where opinion polls portray voters as sharp-eyed fiscal hawks, 72 percent of about 550 district budgets were approved at the...

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