According to recent research mapping sentiment on Twitter, Napa - located in the heart of California's Wine Country region - is home to the happiest tweeters in the nation.

California as a whole, however, did not even rank in the top five in a measure of happiness on Twitter.

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Voter turnout in America is like a limbo contest - How low can you go?  We can raise the bar with Online Voting.

A consistently sad truth about U.S. elections is that most eligible voters don't vote. A few weeks ago, a Los Angeles mayoral race yielded a whopping 20% voter turnout.  In my town last week, the school budget vote brought 11% of the taxpaying voters to the polls.  How about your town?