As Nov. 4 nears, poll shows majority support for Prop. 50

With a new poll Tuesday night, political pundits in California have more ammunition for their sense that voters will approve Proposition 50 and give Democrats carte blanche to replace the state’s independently-drawn congressional districts with maps designed to punt members of the GOP from the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a new survey of likely voters by the Public Policy Institute of California, 56 percent said they plan to vote yes on Proposition 50 — dubbed the Election Rigging Response Act — and 43 percent said they would vote no. The poll follows others that recently showed majority support for the measure and comes as supporters trounce opponents in fundraising and spending ahead of the Nov. 4 election. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has taken the lead on stumping for the proposition,