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Last year, California’s Proposition 16 looked to many like a train coming downgrade.
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The November ballot measure — which would have authorized the state to engage in preferential treatment based on race, sex or ethnicity — had legions of endorsements from corporate titans like Facebook, Wells Fargo and United Airlines. And its supporters were flush with cash, enabling them to outspend the opposition more than 15 to 1.
But after the ballots were all counted, Proposition 16 garnered only 42.8 percent of the vote — a crushing defeat.