Republican lawmakers and consultants argue voters rejected particularly flawed versions of ideas their party still supports. Democrats see evidence that the GOP-controlled legislature has drifted away from the voters who put it in power. House Majority Leader Alex Riley said Republicans won't try to put Amendment 5 before voters again in the same form. "Those no-income-tax states are crushing it, literally, from every metric right now, and the high-tax states are not," Riley said. "And I would like to be one of those states that is doing much better than we have been."