zenmaster10665

Well said, opie. The same thing was going thru my mind.

Can someone, anyone give me a good reason why splitting electoral votes proportionally in accordance with popular vote is a bad idea? I can see why the argument would be made that this shuld not be done in select states, but unfortunately that is exactly how our Union works. It is up to the states in this matter to make a decision how they allocate their electoral votes, be that "winner-takes-all" or proportionally...technically it is none of the Federal Government's business which method a state adopts.

If a few states start making changes, more will come on board, be those "Red" or "Blue" or "Green" or whatever. Partisan politics may or may not be behind the current discussions in Colorado, I am not 100% sure...however, I know that there should be a change made in the way that elections are run in the US or else we are going to continue to lose face on the world stage and run into farcical election results just as we did in 2000.

I wish this thing was a landslide either way, but then again I wish that there was at least a viable 3rd party in the US. Maybe this is the year for the Libertarians or the Greens or someone else to make themselves more than just a blip on the radar...I hope so.

Simply becuase something is a precedent does not make it correct or applicable to present times.

The electoral college is still a bad idea, and, partisan politics aside, one of the easiest ways that I can see of fixing it is to start divvying up votes proportionally.

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