Leave it to California to come up with a new idea that could give Democrats a partisan advantage in Congress.
On the ballot in November will be a proposition to divide the Golden State into three states, California, Southern California and Northern California.
The passage of the proposition is considered a long shot, but so was the presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016. And the state in question thought it had taken care to prevent that possibility, with 7.3 million votes – many of which were cast by legal voters – and its most-in-the-nation 55 electoral votes going to Hillary Clinton.
With three Californias, Democrats practically would be guaranteed six senators, three governors and who knows what else.
The idea is the brainchild of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, and it’s not his first. In 2014, he proposed the country’s largest contiguous state be carved into six pieces. However, that idea didn’t qualify for the 2014 ballot.