A new Field poll shows pretty lukewarm support for Gov. Schwarzengger’s proposal to change California’s redistricting plan to redistricting by commission, especially at this early point. (See here.) Usually ballot measures need to poll higher early in order to survive later attacks, but it might be different with Schwarzenegger backing. Dan Weintraub weighs in on the poll here and here (where he defends the notion that competitive districts lead to the election of moderates). John Marelius reports on party squabbling over the proposal, and Dan Walters defends the proposal, with a column entitled “Only the unreasonable can oppose a revamp of redistricting.”