{"id":1784,"date":"2007-08-10T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2007-08-10T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T16:49:54","slug":"republicans-want-to-change-californias-electoral-college-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/08\/10\/republicans-want-to-change-californias-electoral-college-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Want to Change California&#8217;s Electoral College Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest081007\/2007_08_10_kayden.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest081007\/2007_08_10_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/2007\/POLITICS\/08\/09\/california.split\/art.jerry.brown.ca.gi.jpg\"\/><em>GUEST: Xandra Kayden, Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy, on the National Board of the League of Women Voters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A newly formed group called Californians for Equal Representation, has submitted a ballot initiative to change the current statewide winner-take-all electoral college system. The group would like to see a formula based on congressional districts instead. The initiative is aimed of course at the 2008 Presidential elections, and not surprisingly, is led by Republican strategists. California is a traditionally Democratic state, especially where Presidential elections are concerned. The winner of the presidential election in California historically gets all of the state&#8217;s 55 votes. Now with this initiative Republicans want to apportion electoral votes by congressional districts. This could lead to Republicans winning as many as 22 electoral votes in California even if a Democrat wins the majority in the state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Xandra Kayden, Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy, on the National Board of the League of Women Voters A newly formed group called Californians for Equal Representation, has submitted a ballot initiative to change the current statewide winner-take-all electoral college system. The group would like to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}