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>>Four more senators ? And more electoral college votes? Just vote no<<

Actually, the electoral college situation is one of the better reasons to split the state up.

Yes, they’d get four more senators, but assuming one of the new states was conservative, that wouldn’t change the balance in the Senate. They have a two-seat advantage in CA now and would have a two-seat advantage after the split (4-2).

They’d also have 59 electoral votes (EV’s) instead of the 55 they now have, but it one of the new states voted GOP, then instead of CA starting with 55 EV’s for the Dem presidential candidate, it would start with about 19 or 20 EV’s (40-19 or 40-20). That would be a significant change in the electoral college situation. And if one of the two remaining states ever turned purple, it could even go to a +20 EV GOP advantage, instead of the present, persistent, -55.

So I say vote to split the state.