It’s all Prop 77 all the time around here I guess.  Well, the Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS) at UC-Berkeley will release a report saying it would result in a small net benefit for the GOP. (Oakland Tribune)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s redistricting initiative in the upcoming special election would create some closer races — even in the populous Bay Area and Los Angeles Democratic strongholds — but would not shift decisive power to Republicans, a new report will show today.

The study by the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is foreshadowed in research papers obtained by the Oakland Tribune and roughly matches previous findings by institutes at Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California.

I suppose that gets me back to the reason for not supporting Prop 77: It benefits the GOP with no guarantees of balance.