Republican opposition to the effort to give House Democrats more safe seats may be no match for the fact that Californians really don\u2019t like Trump<\/p>\n
There are many ways to characterize Proposition 50, the single ballot initiative that Californians will be voting on this election season.<\/p>\n
You could say it\u2019s about redrawing congressional district lines outside the regular once-a-decade schedule. You could say, more precisely, that it\u2019s about counterbalancing Republican efforts to engineer congressional seats in their favor in Texas and elsewhere with a gerrymander that favors the Democrats. You could, like the measure\u2019s detractors, call it a partisan power grab that risks undermining 15 years of careful work to make California\u2019s congressional elections as fair and competitive as possible.<\/p>\n
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