thanks, k.g., for forwarding this l'il tidbit
about our golden state & politics ...
[excerpt from new yorker's article below]
about our golden state & politics ...
[excerpt from new yorker's article below]
Two weeks ago, one of the most important Republican lawyers in Sacramento quietly filed a ballot initiative that would end the practice of granting all fifty-five of California's electoral votes to the statewide winner. Instead, it would award two of them to the statewide winner and the rest, one by one, to the winner in each congressional district. Nineteen of the fifty-three districts are represented by Republicans, but Bush carried twenty-two districts in 2004. The bottom line is that the initiative, if passed, would spot the Republican ticket something in the neighborhood of twenty electoral votes-votes that it wouldn't get under the rules prevailing in every other sizable state in the Union.
posted by shirlnutkin @ 2:36 PM
1 Comments:
Time for a third party. I live in VT, our vote does not matter (I think we have zero electoral votes, besides who would want a bunch of crazy Vermonters having say in the president).
Your state is big enough, with enough progressive people to have a legit chance at a third party. Try Unity08 to start.
Please, CA residents, try to do something that will give life to the partisan government we deal with in every-day life right now.
My libertarian side would welcome progressives as a third party, not on issues but on the idea that we can do better (or at least different). You have a history as a state for being ahead of the curb (the billn-maligned CARB, recall elections, etc.), leverage that history into doing something to make national elected responsive to the people, instead of the policy.
Soapboxing done.
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