Colorado: another nail in the elctral collg coffin

[sobo]

I'd probably vote for this no matter what state I lived in.  Even if it would hurt my canidate in the end, because although no other states would switch it is a start.  Although this would help Kerry, whom I support if implimented it will not be until next election, when I will probably support the Republican canidate.

[sobo]

Looking at these results, if for some reason the states do switch to this system, we will need a better tiebraker than just sending it to the house, or it will go there everytime.  However canidates who clearly will not win could instruct their electors to vote for another canidate that they most agree with, for example, in the 1996 election, Perot decides he has more in common with Dole than Clinton, he could instruct his electors to vote for Dole.  Same thing with Gore and Nader in 2000.  This could partially solve the problem of third-party canidates splitting the vote.  I mean if in the current system were to come out 268-267-3 and whichever canidate the 3rd party guy supported was going to lose in the House, do you really think that he would not tell his electors to switch their votes.

[sobo]

Well, it is still closer to the actual result than
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[sobo]

I know that this probably won't happen because of politics, but is it possible to write a computer program that could set CD lines that are not based on counties, it seems like it wouldn't be to hard and if written properly, should make gerrymandering very hard.