Voters and Vouchers.

Pick up the newspaper or tune in to a Sunday morning TV gabfest and you're likely to read or hear about the sizable majority of Americans who approve of voucher plans--school choice, as proponents put it. These assertions are sustained by the holy writ of the public opinion poll, rooted in random sample, buffered by margin of error, presented as mathematic (and, therefore, objective) truth. Who could say them nay?

Well, the voters could. And regularly do. The defeats of voucher plans in Michigan and California in the 2000 election brought the school choice referendum tally to ...

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