The Fascists in the GOP

are trying to tinker with California's electoral votes by putting in an initiative to split them up.

We know Giuliani's goons are doing this, and yes, Democrats had better fight it.
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Oh, Jesus Christ.

I had hoped this goddamned scheme to rig presidential elections in favor of the Republicans would die.

Apparently the backers of this shit are willing to do anything to get it on the ballot.

Campaign Notes.

I thought that attempt to rig California's electoral votes was dead.

Apparently not.

Hillary Clinton is so vulnerable she would put both New York and California in play. That's bad, and I am furious so many Democrats are willing to throw the party over a cliff because of some nostalgia for the Clinton years.

It's stupid on its face.

And since the Electoral College, not the popular vote, determines who will be president (except the Supreme Court, of course, which overrules all), this poll is stupid on its face but is designed to encourage Democrats to jump over the cliff like lemmings.

Why

am I not surprised by this revelation?

A major New York fundraiser for GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been revealed as the money man behind a proposed ballot measure that would have changed California's winner-take-all Electoral College vote system - and likely benefited Republicans.

Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund executive and Giuliani policy adviser, acknowledged his role to the New York Daily News on Friday just a day after GOP organizers in California said they were folding their effort to collect signatures for the group called Californians for Equal Representation.

The Chronicle reported earlier this week that Missouri attorney Charles Hurtt III was the legal agent for a tax-exempt corporation called "Take Initiative America," which provided the sole donation - $175,000 - to the effort to qualify the measure for the California ballot.

The scheme is dead--at least for now.

Don't Think for a Minute

California is going to be a lock for the Democrats, no matter who the nominee is.

After all, the Republicans are working on cheating in that state:

Like crack addicts confronting the irresistible vial, the evil geniuses of the G.O.P. can’t seem to help themselves. This time — with an eye toward seizing the White House again next year, even if they lose the popular vote — they’re trying to rewrite the rules for the distribution of electoral votes in California.

Under current law, all of California’s 55 electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote statewide. This “winner take all” system is the norm in the U.S. It’s in place in all but two states, Maine and Nebraska, which have just four and five electoral votes, respectively.

Now comes a move, from lawyers with close ties to the Republican Party, to scrap the current system in California and replace it with one that would divide up the electoral votes in a way that would likely give 20 or more of them to the candidate who loses the popular vote in the state.

Democrats fear, correctly, that this maneuver could checkmate even their best efforts to win back the White House next year.

These people will never learn a goddamned thing.