{"id":5199,"date":"2007-10-23T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2007-10-24T02:34:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T09:34:33","slug":"reports-california-electoral-college-split-initiative-not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"REPORTS: California Electoral College Split Initiative Not Dead Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5110\">we wrote<\/a> of the reported &#8220;death&#8221; of the GOP initiative\/scam to split California&#8217;s Electoral College votes we urged caution, suggesting that these guys don&#8217;t just give up that easily. Not just because they get caught. As they did when it appeared an out-of-state Rudy Giuliani supporter appeared to secretly be behind the attempt to see the measure placed on next year&#8217;s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, if it gains enough signatures, would make its way onto the ballot in next February&#8217;s Presidential Primary Election. If passed, it would require that California&#8217;s enormous number of electoral votes be apportioned as based on Congressional district support. That, instead of the current winner-take-all system used in the state and in the vast majority of the country. Critics, not without appropriate justification, have viewed the initiative as an attempt to steal the 2008 Presidential Election for the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Late last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/102\/story\/447954.html\"><em>Sacramento Bee<\/em> reported<\/a> that the initiative may be back on track, having found new, deep-pocket funders. Today, &#8220;The Maven&#8221; at dKos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2007\/10\/23\/104727\/19\">offers many more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we wrote of the reported &#8220;death&#8221; of the GOP initiative\/scam to split California&#8217;s Electoral College votes we urged caution, suggesting that these guys don&#8217;t just give up that easily. Not just because they get caught. As they did when it appeared an out-of-state Rudy Giuliani supporter appeared to secretly be behind the attempt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}