With less than two weeks before election day, California voters appear poised to pass the state’s redistricting measure, Proposition 50, to counter Republican redistricting efforts in Texas to

Voters have a big decision to make with Prop 50, which would temporarily redraw California's congressional lines to boost Democrats. But a bigger question looms if the measure passes.

Supporters of Prop. 50 highlight the election’s national impact; opponents focus on how it would impact Californians.

The timing of the endorsement coincides with California voters receiving, and returning, their vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 4 election.

View the full episode transcript. California voters have one proposition on the ballot this November: Proposition 50. It’s supporters want California to adopt a new congressional map that could give Democrats five more seats in the U.

Partisans like Hsia and Zavala are fired up. So is Democratic volunteer Debbie Raucher of Oakland, who’s been spending weekends knocking on doors to encourage Yes on 50 votes, and Republicans in San Jose like Carol Pefley who hang “No on 50” banners over freeway overpasses during rush hour. But across the Bay Area, others are barely tuning in.

Even some champions of California’s citizen-drawn Congressional maps support the Nov. 4 ballot measure to suspend them and counter Trump’s attacks. "The people have to say no, we are going to figure out how to survive,

On Oct. 22, Former President Barack Obama threw his political weight around in support of California’s Proposition 50 measure.