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GOP Looking to Split California Electoral Baby
This is from Celcius D.C. The Ruminator is ruminating ...*snip* In late July, the law firm of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, acting under the direction of its managing partner Thomas W. Hiltachk, filed California ballot Initiative No. 07-0032the Presidential Election Reform Actwhich is aimed at ending the practice of granting all fifty-five of Californias electoral votes to the statewide winner. Under the initiative, should it pass, California would apportion two electoral votes to the statewide winner and the rest, one by one, to the winner of each of its 53 congressional districts. This would mean that the 2008 Republican nominee would now have a shot at picking up in the neighborhood of 20 electoral votes in California in 2008 rather than zero. Such an electoral pickup would be roughly the equivalent of winning Ohio in 2004. For those of you out there who might be inclined to argue that California Republicans are engaging in a Fantasia-like powerplay and that this initiative will never pass muster once California voters get wind of this, think again. Recent polling indicates that a sizeable portion of Californians are in favor of the initiative. Posted by: eltoroverde 2007-09-19 |
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