Joe Mathews, a California journalist and author, and one of the nation’s leading proponents of Proportional Representation, has this column in Fox & Hounds, suggesting to California Republicans that they advocate proportional representation. As he correctly notes, Republican candidates for California legislature, cumulatively, regularly poll a higher share of the statewide popular vote than the percentage of seats they win.
Fox & Hounds is a Republican-leaning blog about California politics. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
The U.S.A. has been in a political Stone Age with AREA FIXATION gerrymander disease since 4 July 1776
— with the infection from England in the 1200s (formation of the gerrymander English House of Commons)
— infection carried into Brit colonies in the 1600s — i.e. Virginia — gerrymander plantation districts along the James River – FIRST colony gerrymander circa 1618 — now a mere almost 400 years ago.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
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