POLL: CO Amendment 36

One issue in Colorado is how to vote for Amendment 36.

The Amendment would allocate Colorado's electoral votes based on the percentage of votes cast for each Candidate.  If approved the changes would be effective for the November 2004 Presidential election.

I have yet to hear where Ken Salazar & KE04 stand on this subject?  

•  Salazar and KE04

  They shouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

  Look, regardless of the merits of this amendment, introducing it in a Presidential election year, particularly this year, was a huge mistake on the part of the supporters. It turns a reform issue into a partisan issue. I think this amendment, and the flaming defeat it will go down to, have set back electoral reform several years.

  by Blue the Wild Dog on Sun Oct 03, 2004 at 12:10:54 PM PDT

•  Colorado amendments

  Over the years, I've found it smarter and wiser to vote down every single voter amendment in Colorado.  Yes, it's a general blanket statement, but most of these amendments never seem well though out or excruciatingly complicated to understand.  

  by ssmt on Sun Oct 03, 2004 at 12:20:05 PM PDT

•  Passage would be a disaster for CO and for Kerry

  Because it's an election year, the issue has become partisan, and Bush supporters are opposing the amendment. Thus it will only pass if a lot of Kerry supporters vote for it, but if there are that many Kerry supporters then Kerry has likely won the state -- which means the amendment will lose him 4 electoral votes.

  It's idiotic to have this in an election year, because it increases the chance of having the election again decided by a court case.

  In any case, such reforms should be undertaken nationally, not state by state. Why would Coloradans want to unilaterally make their state irrelevant? If the amendment passes, why would any presidential candidate ever visit Colorado again?

  by KCinDC on Sun Oct 03, 2004 at 12:51:24 PM PDT