Colorado To Vote on Electoral College Plan

siriuskase writes "Is it too much to ask of our technology/math skills to award electorial votes in proportion to the popular vote? Colorado might be up to the task. From the article: On Nov. 2, voters will consider a proposal to immediately scrap the state's winner-take-all electoral vote system and allow candidates to keep a proportion of the delegates they win. In theory, a candidate could win 55 percent of the statewide vote and get only five of the state's nine electoral votes. If the proposal had been in place four years ago, Gore would have earned enough electoral votes to go to the White House. "

Comments

First!

[genrader]

Gore in the White House, wow, that's as scary as Bush being in the White House.

Re:National Level

[sadler121]

Colodrado is a clear Rebublican state.

My friend, you have never lived in Utah, only until then can you claim CO is a Republician state. Juzt by the mere fact that Dole barely took CO is indicitive of how bi-partisen CO really is.

Proportional representation is the way to go if we are to keep the electorial college, (which IMO, keeping the Electoral college is still going to be the best way to maintain the states power over the Federal goverment, though the Republicians, ala Lincoln can also be blamed for the start of the decline of States rights).

Proportional representation still will not help Utah though. People who have the singled minded view that, along with "the only true church", there is really, "the only true political party". It makes it harder for those Mormons who actually are Democrats to even remain active in a Church where the majority of the population are blind sheep who can't think for themselves.