Leave it to a left wing opinion blog like Vox to doublespeak a resounding failure into a success. The headline really should read:<p><i>Basic income advocates lost by a huge margin in Switzerland.</i><p>77% opposed, 23% in favor can't possibly be encouraging except to the most fervent believers. No politician is going to back a plan like this when the public is more than 3/4 opposed to it.<p>It's also worth noting that Switzerland is a strong participatory democracy, so we can be fairly confident that this vote count more or less reflects the will of the people.