One of the Republicans' dirty tricks has officially failed with more than a year to go before election day. The mysterious group of supporters wanted to assign California's electoral votes to be divided by Congressional district. The initiative would have enabled Republicans to win up to twenty of the Golden State's 55 electoral jewels. Unfortunately for them, infighting and a lack of funds brought the operation down. The efforts by the Courage Campaign didn't do them much good either.
From The LA Times:
Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California's 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, are pulling the plug on that effort.
In an exclusive report to appear on this website late tonight and in Friday's print editions, The Times' Dan Morain reports that the proposal to change the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation to one by congressional district is virtually dead with the resignation of key supporters, internal disputes and a lack of funds.
The reality is hundreds of thousands of signatures must be gathered by the end of November to get the measure on the June 2008 ballot.
Aww, the poor little Republicans didn't get their way. Maybe they can try to campaign on their (lack of) ideas and upstanding moral character to win back California next time. LMAO!
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