In case you haven’t heard Colorado is trying to kill off the “winner take all” electoral vote system that they current employ.
They want to switch to a proportional system of vote distribution and with their nine electoral votes, this means roughly 1 electoral vote to about 10% of the vote is. I’m not a mathematician, obviously.
There’s been some interesting analysis on this subject and whether you agree or disagree it’s definitely thought provoking.
The obvious criticism is that it may take away the focus presidential candidates give to smaller states and send them back to the big ones they currently ignore.
Kerry is currently Texas phobic, and I don’t think Bush has seen the Pacific in California for a long time because they both know they can’t campaign hard or long enough to take back those states. But if this idea were to catch on, it could bring those big states back into play where a five percent swing could pick you up six electoral votes.
My take is that is that were this to catch on, we’d see a more polarized country than we already have.
On the other hand, big states like New York and California would feel more like they were in the mix for the presidential race (and given their size, shouldn’t they be?).
This is definitely an interesting topic, one that should be discussed….