More On the GOP Power Grab

I'm no constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that any attempt to change the way California allocates its electoral votes in presidential elections would have to go through the state legislature and not through the voters.

From Article II of the United States Constitution:

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

(My emphasis.) At the very least the Democratic-led state legislature should make a strong attempt to keep this off the ballot.

Should that fail and should the initiative pass, I think that the wording in the Constitution would be enough to put the plan on hold while appeals are filed.

What are the chances of it passing? A new Field Poll shows 49% of state voters support the change, 42% oppose it.