California electoral initiative dead

The good news of the day is that the effort to steal 20 or so electoral votes from the Dems in California has died:

Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California's 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, are pulling the plug on that effort.

It's weird that only a couple of days ago Bob Herbert's column in the New York Times made it sound as though this thing was moving forward quickly and was likely to win. Maybe Herbert has his ear to the wrong ground.