Proposition 50 – California Globe

The Broken Compass and the Centennial Catastrophe: A Polling Industry that Keeps Promising Outcomes it Cannot Deliver

August 15, 2026 9:00 amAugust 17, 2026 10:41 am

America just threw itself a 250th birthday party, and the polling that came with it reads like a physician’s chart for a patient in trouble. A PBS NewsHour/Marist survey released for the semiquincentennial found that 37 percent of Americans —...

Far-Left Robert Garcia Cruises to General Election While Orange County’s Huntington Beach Gets Dragged Along for the Ride

June 3, 2026 5:25 pmJune 4, 2026 1:41 am

Nearly 24 hours after polls closed on California’s June 2 primary, the state’s famously sluggish vote-counting machine has managed to tabulate roughly 60 percent of the ballots in the newly redrawn 42nd Congressional District. And what do we have to...

California’s Horror Flick: Why Voters Keep Running Upstairs

May 5, 2026 6:30 amMay 5, 2026 6:31 am

I grew up in the 1980s watching Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees chase teenagers who always made the same dumb decision. Instead of bolting for the exit, the damsel in distress sprinted upstairs and locked herself in a dark room....

California Democratic Party Chair Panics, Begs Weak Candidates to Drop Out as GOP Surge Threatens One-Party Lock on Governorship

March 3, 2026 9:42 amMarch 3, 2026 10:02 am

In a move that highlights the growing anxiety within the California Democratic Party, Chair Rusty Hicks issued an open letter on Tuesday urging underperforming gubernatorial candidates to bow out of the 2026 race or face the consequences of a potential...

Rep Kiley Defies Democrat Gerrymander: Announces Run in Newly Drawn 6th District Amid Prop 50 Fallout

March 2, 2026 2:39 pmMarch 2, 2026 2:47 pm

In a stand against what he calls the “evil of gerrymandering,” Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley announced Monday morning that he will file papers this week to run for reelection in California’s newly redrawn 6th Congressional District. The decision comes after...

California’s Political Osmosis: How Education, Policy, and Media Quietly Rewire Public Belief

January 21, 2026 9:00 amJanuary 21, 2026 5:47 pm

I learned to read the world by watching patterns and noticing what people do when they think no one is watching. I first learned that as a soldier in the Middle East, where you survive by reading incentives and truth...

BREAKING: State of California and DCCC Trying to Change Rules Already Agreed to in Prop 50 Lawsuit

November 20, 2025 11:12 amNovember 20, 2025 11:20 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom unconstitutionally overturned the voter-approved California Redistricting Commission with Proposition 50, which was just passed by voters. That is bad enough, but the new congressional district maps were drawn based on racial lines, a recent lawsuit alleges....