Prop 77...

This is the big proposition this year. The one that, if passed, could make major changes to the political universe in California and, eventually, in the entire US if this catches on.

Basically its an attempt to put theoretically non-partisan judges in charge of redistricting. A very good idea. It does put a lot of power in the hands of three people, however, these people would likely be extremely trustworthy former judges, people who probably could be trusted with this power.

And one has only to look at what's happened in Texas in the last decade to see how much power redistricting can give. A gerrymandered district attempts to put as many voters likely to vote against the party in power into as few districts as possible. This allows the other districts to be won easily, pretty much preventing the smaller party from ever taking control again without a major universal power shift.

Texas is full of these districts. Hell, pretty much all states are like this.

Its horribly undemocratic.

And, yet, California is a Democratic state. Hell, its THE democratic state. Others might be stronger, like Hawaii, but none are bigger.

And if California gets more competitive, then Democrats in the nat'l government might lose even more power.

I'm going to vote for it, in the hopes that other, more Republican states will follow suit. Everything else Arnold put forth is getting one big fat no vote, though. He's defending them by saying that the Sacramento fat cats (one of whom he is, by the way) don't want them.

Gotta love the quote "I don't know about all these propositions, but if the politicians are against them, then I'm for them!"

Ouch. Yes, lets vote on whether or not the people we've voted to know the most about politics like these changes to the government! Brilliant idea!