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DEAR COLORADO, DAILY KOS SAYS:


DEAR COLORADO, DAILY KOS SAYS:


…my strategic recommendation to Colorado Kerry supporters is to vote Kerry and vote “aye” on the proportional-electors ballot initiative. If it passes and Kerry wins, it will cost him four electors. But if Kerry loses, as is my hunch, ballot passage still guarantees the senator four more electors than Gore won in 2000.

That is all.

I now add: I hope Kerry wins Colorado, to my dream scenario.

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6 Responses to “DEAR COLORADO, DAILY KOS SAYS:”

  1. Alceste Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 3:07 am

    While I think electoral votes by district makes a lot of sense for voters in smaller states (assuming larger states do it too), I find the idea of changing the rules on election day quite troublesome. The rule gets changed. A constitutional challenge legitimately gets filed. And we wait and wait to see who wins? Not my dream scenario by any measure.

  2. Dawn Summers Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 3:16 am

    oh, did I fail to mention that in my dream scenario Kerry gets like 303 electoral college votes, so that contesting any one state won’t matter, or even two (provided one of them ain’t Florida…)?

  3. Alceste Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 3:36 am

    If the initiative is passed, there’s likely litigation regardless of the result of the elections. It’s just a bad idea… as for 303, unfortunately I think that will only happen if you’re dreaming…

  4. Dawn Summers Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 3:43 am

    so’s your face. :(

  5. cube Says:
    October 29th, 2004 at 4:36 pm

    yea, it is fine if colorda want to change the law, but it should not be retro active.

    also there is the problem of the fact that the state legusature has to change the way the electoral votes are used, not a ballot initivative

  6. jim Says:
    November 1st, 2004 at 5:40 am

    Yeah, Colorado should pass the amendment, if they want to be ignored by presidential candidates in the future. I mean, more than they are now.

    Similarly, we should abolish the Electoral College if we want presidential candidates to spend most of their time and money in New York, Texas, and California.

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