Find the real disconnect in votes

In his letter of Nov. 19, Mr. Morgan requested comments on theories of why so many voted for a governor who was against ballot initiatives that they favored ("Disconnect in votes for Rauner, initiatives"). I personally did not find that circumstance to be a disconnect.

If managing the ship of state, Illinois, was as simple as raising the minimum wage, blocking a mandate for voter ID's, requiring birth control coverage in insurance plans and taxing millionaires as a means to fund schools, then Mr. Quinn would have been re-elected in a landslide. And with ballot-box support he could implement those initiatives with total support of the progressive legislature. He could have done that in his current term, I suppose.

But wait. The voters, stupid as some economists allege them to be, realized that the flight of jobs and citizens to neighboring states and the resolution of the deepening pension crisis with the attendant fiscal disgorging of the state's treasury would not have been resolved by those "bring out the vote" red herrings.

The voting wasn't a disconnect. The initiatives and the governor's office were never connected. Where I did find a disconnect, if you will, was a few weeks previous when a newspaper poll was taken and there were three significant questions. Those questions and the responses regarding Quinn and Rauner were: 1) Which of the two is more trustworthy - Rauner, 2) Which one is more qualified to deal with the fiscal problems of Illinois - Rauner, 3) Who will you vote for - Quinn. That, I submit, was the disconnect that needed analysis.

Thomas A. Floyd

Bartlett