I just was polled by an independent market research firm on behalf of a potential November 2010 ballot initiative and thought y’all might be interested in this. The poller first established basic screening questions (I voted in 2008, I don’t approve of Schwarzenegger or the state legislature, I’m “somewhat familiar” with Proposition 11). Then: the initiative would amend the 2008 Prop 11 to grant authority to establish redistricting Congressional districts to a Redistricting Commission rather than the state legislature<\/i>. Geographic integrity <\/i>of cities\/towns must be respected. The commission must respect communities of Interest<\/i>: neighboring populations with common social and economic interests<\/i>.” Italics reflect my notes, not just my faulty memory.<\/p>\n
I was then read a number of reasons to vote for and against the initiative and asked to rate them as convincing or not. Most for and against reasons were mirror images of each other; however, two stood out.
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“The initiative is being put forth by one wealthy Republican.”
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“The initiative will hurt minority members of Congress.”<\/p>\n
Thoughts and comments, y’all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just was polled by an independent market research firm on behalf of a potential November 2010 ballot initiative and thought y’all might be interested in this. The poller first established basic screening questions (I voted in 2008, I don’t approve of Schwarzenegger or the state legislature, I’m “somewhat familiar” with Proposition 11). Then: the initiative would amend the 2008 Prop 11 to grant authority to establish redistricting Congressional districts to a Redistricting Commission rather than the state legislature<\/i>. Geographic integrity <\/i>of cities\/towns must be respected. The commission must respect communities of Interest<\/i>: neighboring populations with common social and economic interests<\/i>.” Italics reflect my notes, not just my faulty memory.<\/p>\n
I was then read a number of reasons to vote for and against the initiative and asked to rate them as convincing or not. Most for and against reasons were mirror images of each other; however, two stood out.
\n
“The initiative is being put forth by one wealthy Republican.”
\n
“The initiative will hurt minority members of Congress.”<\/p>\n
Thoughts and comments, y’all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[519,5736],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-519","tag-5736"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2FO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}