Bradley Whitford: No More Dirty Tricks!

According to this video, the Republican Party is about dirty tricks - and that they stole the White House (remember Gore's crying about Chads? How about Kerry's?) Well, the redistricting in California could help with electoral votes, because what it would do is rather than giving all of California's Electoral Votes to one party, it would split them up, and distribute them district by district - so, if the overall vote went the Democrat's way, which California is largely a Blue State when it comes to the big cities, but the electoral votes are distributed by districts, the Dems would lose the electoral votes in districts that voted Republican (which tend to be the more sparsely populated areas). This has advantages and disadvantages. The losing party in the state would gain some of California's votes, which is a large part of the number of electoral votes needed. However, what it will do in the end is give the power to big cities and take it away from rural areas. Suddenly, states with largely rural areas and one big city will lose because the big city votes to an otherwise Red State will go to the Blue. Second, though the Constitution calls for redistricting every ten years, changing the rules goes against what the Constitution intended. The Electoral College is designed so that smaller states have some say. This kind of redistricting, as proposed in California, seems good on the surface, but in the end, will do nothing more than hand the power to the larger urban areas, and in the end, the little guy will be forgotten. The big cities will be the ones electing the president, and everyone else's votes won't matter. An awful lot of America is sparsely populated, and their voices deserve to be heard too. And Urban areas are, for the most part, Democrat. So what may seem like a good idea in California is a bad idea in America - and that is coming from a Conservative.