Posted on 08/07/2007 12:04:24 PM PDT by BlueDragon
SACRAMENTO — California GOP strategists, seeking to reshape the electoral map in their party's favor, plan to begin raising money this week for a ballot initiative they hope will help a Republican win the White House in the 2008 election.
As it is, Democrats assume they must win California's electoral votes to win the presidency. California supplies 55 electoral votes, more than 10% of the 538 nationally.
The nascent initiative, aimed at the June 2008 ballot, would change California's winner-take-all system to require that electoral votes be apportioned by congressional district.
With Republicans holding 19 of the state's 53 congressional seats, a GOP candidate theoretically...
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Typical, short-sighted idiots... This will bite them on the ass one day. If this nutty idea catches on in too many states, the GOP will find itself locked out of the White House. In case they hadn’t noticed, there are more Dems in Congress than Pubies as has been the case for most of the last half century.
Stupid is as my Party does.
and what many people don’t realize is that the GOP holds the majority in registered voters in 35 of the 58 counties;
a 17 county switch in the last 12 years.
While the Lefties are aborting their offspring, Conservatives are busy raising theirs.
The people of this bill must actually believe that there are more conservatives than dimbulbs in the Socialist Republik of Kalifornia.
I have as good a chance of being selected Pope as anything like this does of being passed in Kalifornia
I don’t understand why they want the votes apportioned by congressional district instead of just by percentage, unless they think there’s something to be gained because the districts are gerrymandered. Does apportioning by district get them more electoral votes than they’d otherwise get?
Actually, the district apportionment system would favor the GOP nationally.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Your reasoning is somewhat broken - look at WV electing Byrd statewide yet voting for Bush.
Between their love of asinine, mobocratic “ballot initiatives”, and their desire to run roughshod over the electoral college, the California GOP again shows themselves to be populist, rather than conservative.
About time is all I can say.
I’m sick of the GOP abandoning the so-called “blue states.”
I have no idea. Good question, though.
You should stick to playing the drums since obviously don’t know squat about CA.
You might want to read my previous post, #4 just to enlighten yourself on reality.
and finally, fyi, there are more registered Republicans in CA than any other state in the Union.
“Socialist Republik of Kalifornia?”
you must have been “educated” in public schools. LMAO
You might want to read my previous post, Post # 3 just to enlighten yourself on reality.
The Electoral College was killed long, long ago. Prior to the Civil War, the electors were entirely independent of the populace as well it should have been. Now, they're forced to vote "winner take all," meaning less populated areas of states get the disproportionate shaft. At least this measure would restore some sort of fairness to the system.
You are most likely correct. That is, I'm assuming you're not posting from the Vatican, eh?
Well apparently they don’t vote because that has been a blue state for quite a while. What good is is to have more registered republicans than any other state when they are outvoted by dimbulbs?
The last time I looked, 233 was a bigger number than 202.
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