By Amber Phillips | The Washington Post
By most measures, 2016 was the Republicans’ year. They’ll enter 2017 with near-historic majorities in Congress, governors’ mansions and state legislatures, and as attorneys general, secretaries of state — you get the point.
But Democrats and liberal advocates had some surprisingly major victories in 2016, especially on state referendums dealing with drugs, minimum wage and guns.
Here are the nine biggest state political and policy battles, divided into categories by which side won. Let’s start with the Republicans first.
