Post 7: GOP Looking for Help

I read in the LA times that there are GOP leaders that were reestablishing a campaign to help the Republicans in the 2008 presidential election. The help that they are looking for is in California. According to the article that I read, if California changes the way it processes its Electoral College votes, Republicans might have a chance of obtaining it.

“The proposed initiative would change California's method of allocating its 55 electoral votes from a winner-take-all basis, which favors Democrats, to a congressional district-based approach. Republicans hold 19 congressional seats, so presumably the GOP nominee could win a similar number of electoral votes.”

This search for help in the 2008 though has met many obstacles as the leaders of this campaign fell short of money a few months back. Now, there are many Democratic Party leaders that are accusing Republican Party donators of funding the change in order to specifically benefit Rudy Giuliani. So now there are those that are bashing this strategy and simply accusing the GOP of fraud.

“"Republicans seem to be pursuing a strategy where they will lose at the polls and, along the way, define the GOP as the party of electoral fraudster," said Chris Lehane, a former Clinton White House aide who was organizing the opposition.

It will be very interesting to see if the change is made and to see if the GOP actually benefits from California in the 2008 election. Clearly, there are those in the GOP that are worried about loosing the 2008 election and are willing to go to any measures in order to help the party’s chances in the election. I really do think that if the Republicans can get the signatures to pass their proposal, then it is fair. This is an election year and it is fair game to help out your party in any way possible. It is ridiculous to accuse leaders of the GOP of fraud just because they found a way to benefit their party.