D.C. Wire reports that 22 percent of Americans favor D.C. statehood.
For some perspective, 29 percent of Americans had a favorable view of O.J. Simpson following his murder trial in 1995.
The problem here is that it's nearly impossible for anyone who lives outside the D.C. metro area to care at all about the issue, since all it does for them is dilute their voting power. With statehood, Americans won't remember that there are 102 Senators, instead of not remembering that there 100 now. What can be done? I suggest a steady diet of symbolic gestures, strong leadership and setting a good example of how the District will comport itself if granted statehood. At this rate, public support should top the one-quarter mark any day now.
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