Some excerpts from Peter Blake on the proposal to divide up Colorado's electoral votes:
It's a laughingly transparent Democratic ploy, of course, since it is based on the reasonable assumption that George W. Bush will win in Colorado, where Republicans outnumber Democrats and the polls have the president ahead. Yet John Kerry would probably salvage four of the nine votes.
Apportioning votes might not be a bad idea if it were adopted nationwide. But it's been proposed only for Colorado, and what it means is that our state would be virtually ignored by candidates. After all, why court a state if your visit could produce, at best, a one-vote shift in the electoral college?
The initiative has been preponderantly financed by a wealthy Californian named J. Jorge Klor de Alva. Of course he's not trying to do the same thing there, since Kerry is supposed to win California. Why give up, say, 25 of the state's 55 electoral votes to Bush?