Posted on 09/27/2004 6:46:42 AM PDT by KellyAdmirer
Colorado continues to attract attention in the Bush-Kerry election battle. Friday Teresa Heinz-Kerry, Senator John Kerry's wife, was in Pueblo for what was billed as a town meeting.
Her points centered on health care costs, which she says are out of control. She says her husband would fight to reign them in, if elected.
She also said her husband would bring European countries on board to help in Iraq. "Our allies to be with us all the way to share the costs, the burdens, dollars, the burdens, lives, so the United States does not have to shoulder it all alone." said Heinz-Kerry to a mostly friendly crowd at the Colorado State Fairgrounds.
One man asked about what he sees as Kerry's changing positions on support for the war in Iraq. He was shouted down by the crowd and left after shouting "four more years."
An exclusive News First SurveyUSA poll shows Kerry losing ground in Colorado in the last few weeks. The poll shows President Bush leading Kerry 52 to 44 percent. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. The survey was done by phone this week in the entire state of Colorado and included 626 likely voters.
Five weeks ago the same poll showed the two were tied at 47 percent each.
"Who cares? One state does not make a state." I guess she meant to say one state does not make a whole election, but who knows.
On the other hand, one state may make two states, since the Kerry Kampaign keeps telling us there are "two Americas"
We need to find a brave reporter to get her to clarify what she meant. We need another "shove it" soundbite.
Don't you have to wonder if the second part of that headline is a consequence of the first? LOLOLOLOL!
It is unconstitutional, because it is a referendum. The constitution very specifically says that the state legislatures, and only the state legislatures have the authority to determine the method by which electors are chosen! The Colorado legislature very specifically rejected such a system.
As long as large states like California, New York and Texas do not change from a winner take all system, it is not in the interest of small states like Colorado to do so.
I also don't want to forgot to mention that it also violates the federal election code. The method by which the electors is selected must be in place before (as I recall at least six days prior to) the date the electors are chosen which is election day. Even if the a referendum were a valid mechanism of determining the method of allocating electors, this referendum is too late to affect the 2004 election. This referendum should be fought in court and removed from the ballot.
Article II.Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
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