Jon Fleischman: Prop. 50 passed in a landslide. Here’s why.

Proposition 50 does exactly what critics warned it would: it has now sidelined California’s independent redistricting commission for congressional seats until 2032, and it has substituted a set of partisan maps designed to flip five Republican-held districts into reliable Democratic seats, while shoring up Democrats in an equal number of competitive seats.
What makes its passage especially striking is that Californians overwhelmingly like the independent commission. According to a Public P