I’m not familiar with prop 11. Is this good or bad?
You’ll have to read the fine print to see who it is that will be defining the new districts. If it is a Democrat or Democrat appointee, it will probably make things worse.
I’m pinging CalCowGirl. She is usually very insightful on these matters.
That is in the eye of the beholder.
It is good if you mean that the process is at slightly greater arms length from its intended recipient. The term better might be more appropriate if, in your midset, Barry Obama is better than Hugo Chavez.
It is bad if you mean it subdivides the electorate in similarly sized groups without respect to community, culture or race. It is bad if you understand that it's passage will be used as a excuse to preclude effort to promulgate anything less republican. The effacing term "best we can expect" might be more appropriate if you are a pragmatic partisan.