In 2005, a coalition of individuals and organizations came together under the rubric of Reform Ohio Now to promote a package of four constitutional amendments, one of which dealt with redistricting. The Reform Ohio Now redistricting amendment took a formulaic, mathematical approach, only this time the number one criterion was competitiveness. Among a set of qualifying plans, the one that was to be selected was the one that created the greatest number of competitive districts. Reform Ohio Now included some academics, some good government organizations, some labor unions, and some Democrats — but very few Republicans. Ultimately, the Ohio Republican Party and many prominent Republicans opposed the RON amendments. The Ohio Democratic Party did not endorse the amendments. Some county Democratic Party organizations endorsed the amendments, and some Democrats opposed the amendments, including the chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. The Reform Ohio Now amendments were overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. The Republican opposition was not surprising since the GOP controlled the existing process. But the tepid Democratic organizational support was somewhat surprising. One explanation given for the weak Democratic support was the expectation of many Democrats that they would sweep the 2006 elections and thus control the post-2010 redistricting process. On this line of thinking, there was no reason to change the process, when they might be in position to do to the Republicans what the GOP had done to them in previous redistricting plans.