Card check, RIP

The GOP takeover of the House -- not to mention the national repudiation of the Obama agenda undergirding Tuesday's election results -- means that "card check" is dead for now in Congress.

It had been the top priority on Big Labor's wish list: Make it easier to organize employees by essentially getting rid of secret ballot union elections, thus giving labor bosses a vast new pool of workers from which they could generate forced dues that could be siphoned off to Democrats who support big, activist government.

Republicans -- with the help of some moderate Democrats -- successfully blocked card check for two years and now have the upper hand with a majority in the lower chamber.

And while beltway GOP interests were battling this proposal in Washington as unfair and un-American, grass-roots activists set forth at the state level to protect the secret ballot election.

The results on Tuesday speak volumes about voter disdain for Big Labor's effort to rig the organization process.

In Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah, voters were asked to pass initiatives guaranteeing the right to a secret ballot in union elections. The closest result? Utah, where it passed 60-40. It was 86-14 in South Carolina and 79-21 in South Dakota. Arizonans approved the measure 61-39.

True, none of these four states is awash in blue. But polls across the nation show card check to be woefully unpopular. Democrats who continue to push this loser do so at their own peril.