The Los Angeles Times editorial page is happy California is finally getting some love due to our earlier primary. Add their editorial to the wave of press on the subject (and read Dr. Pitney’s “Attention Must Be Paid” post). Although the change in date was “all good,” the Times says: We were hoping for still… Continue Reading
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Electoral Vote Allocation & Redistricting
Matt Johnston’s reaction to Sam Hirsch’s recent Michigan Law Review piece arguing against the proposal to award electoral college votes from California by Congressional district is worth reading: If the California plan were couple with redistricting reform, in which districts are drawn to not only be geographically compact but to also be competitive to the… Continue Reading
California: Attention Must Be Paid, Press Edition UPDATEDx2
On the same theme of Dr. Pitney’s post below, see the following recent articles and columns about how California’s primary actually matters: Cathleen Decker’s Los Angeles Times article: To California political activists who have labored for years under the mantra that the state doesn’t matter in the presidential primaries, 2008 has been the campaign that… Continue Reading
California: Attention Must Be Paid
Californians don’t get much attention from the national press corps. I’m not talking about celebrities. I’m talking about pavement people – the kind who get up and face traffic jams at 5 o’clock in the morning. Normally, these folks don’t show up on television news unless they’re crawling out from rubble. There are plenty of… Continue Reading
Dr. Pitney on CA Presidential Primary
From John Hill’s article in the Sacramento Bee: The two parties’ complex systems for allocating delegates will shape strategy in the last days of the election and may well influence the outcome, experts say. The statewide vote totals, of course, will play a part in the results – both in terms of the delegate count,… Continue Reading
Improving the Rules of the Game
Could you help Chris Swain make the Redistricting Game even better than it already is? Continue Reading
Proposition 93 & Redistricting Chatter
The Armed Liberal of the Winds of Change blog is against Prop. 93: I’ve believed for some time that reform of redistricting in California is hostage to entrenched political actors, who will have to be blasted out of their gerrymandered districts with a firehose. A reasonable redistricting proposal was defeated two years ago, in no… Continue Reading
Redistricting: Everyone’s got an Opinion
However, many armchair linedrawers don’t realize the restrictions the real linedrawers are under from a) the real world of politics and b) the courts. In any event, the Listmeister’s List Dump blog has an “Objective Redistricting” plan; see also Andrew Gelman’s post on the Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog: P.S. Ted Dunning… Continue Reading
We the Purple and Redistricting
Marcia Ford’s “We the Purple” blog, spreading the independent voter word, says: Independents find this abuse of political power to be especially heinous. However, most Americans consider redistricting—drawing the lines of congressional districts—to be synonymous with “drowsy somnolence.” *** Enter Manifold System’s Dimitri Rotow, who created several Google Earth files showing some of the worst… Continue Reading
Young Republican: Redistricting NOT the answer
Harsh words from the Young Republican Federation of Sacramento’s blog: Many of the activists seem to believe that with enough money, precinct walks, phone banks, redistricting, etc., the Republicans can become the majority party in California. In the late 70’s and into the 80’s and 90’s, Ford and GM discovered that advertising will not compensate… Continue Reading