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Colorado can't risk its clout
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| Last Edited | None Entered Oct 13, 2004 03:43am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There's a transparently partisan movement afoot in Colorado to distribute our Electoral College votes proportionately. The goal? To give John Kerry a four-vote Electoral College boost, putting him ahead of President Bush in a close election.
But that in and of itself is not the reason proposed Amendment 36 on the Nov. 2 ballot is bad for Colorado. The fact is that if Amendment 36 passed, it would forever make it easy for presidential candidates to ignore Colorado, since our state would be an Electoral College "lone ranger" among states.
Amendment 36 is bad for Colorado, which is no doubt why it's being bankrolled by out-of-state interests. The man behind Amendment 36 is J. Jorge Klor de Alva, a multimillionaire who currently lives in Brazil. Klor de Alva could just as easily have pushed this scheme in his former home state of California — a state that will only grow in influence if small states such as Colorado surrender their Electoral College edge. It's no coincidence that he didn't, however: Ending the winner-take-all system in California would help Bush more than Kerry, which defeats Klor de Alva's purpose. |
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