What's happening in Oregon is, some group will come in from out of state with an extreme right-wing agenda and hire signature gatherers and get some tax cutting measure on the ballot. Then they begin an advertising campaign with huge war-chests that the opponents can't hope to duplicate.
                  In addition, in the same election, the same group will hire signature gatherers to put something on the ballot that will attract great numbers of the "unthinking," like a gay marriage initiative, or something to do with abortion.
                  Witch doctors across the state will, of course, encourage their unthinking hordes to go out and vote against the gay marriage/abortion measure, and, at the same time, they will be prodded to "by the way, while you're there, vote in the tax cutting measure."
                  It's unclear what the witch doctors and their unthinking hordes get out of all of this. Of course, they're tax exempt, so anything is possible. One can only conclude that they hate poor people.
                  Young couples and single women with small children are the ones who are hurt most by all of this. And, of course, that makes people who think really, really angry.