Well it appears as if an initiative that would divide up California's 55 electoral votes is going to make it onto the ballot some time next summer. The proposal, proposed of course by a Republican, would divide California's electoral votes in the 2008 election. The winner of the popular vote statewide would get 2 electoral votes and the rest would be divided up by the popular vote in a particular district.
This is nothing but Republicans trying to cheap shot democrats. Democrats have recently carried, by a wide margin, the entire state's popular vote, but there are some small counties who vote Republican. What is so wrong with this proposal, besides its creation for partisan purposes, is that a district with a 200,000 people could vote for a democrat, while a district with 20,000 people could vote republican, yet both districts would carry the same amount of weight. A candidate could get millions of votes over another candidate and still technically "lose" California because districts with small populations voted for republicans. Its wrong no matter how you look at it and I encourage every Californian to vote against it!
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