Let me guess: it's another example of GOP wishful-thinking, where it just happens to gerrymander away a lot of CA's electoral votes? /me checks article and loo

Let me guess: it's another example of GOP wishful-thinking, where it just happens to gerrymander away a lot of CA's electoral votes? /me checks article and looks at map Yep. The only section that would reliably vote against the GOP would be "silicon valley" due to it being mostly urban areas. The Sacramento and urban LA areas are questionable. While (current) CA as been a reliable block of electoral votes votes for some time, it there the state has a lot more "rural voters" than most people expect. Precinct heat map for 2008 Obama/McCain: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4362/statewidevote.gif http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4362/statewidevote.gif The same map skewed so area is proportional to #votes cast. The giant blue area on the left is roughly the "silicon valley" subdivision, and LA 3 of the eastern subdivisions are mostly the lighter-blue/lighter-read areas. http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3248/statewidevoteadjustedbi.gif http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3248/statewidevoteadjustedb... It's not like it would happen anyway. Does LA really want to start paying us in the norther half of the state for all the water we would then be "exporting"? Not going to happen. edit: fixed URL