In the first major victory against the tyranny from the extreme-far-left Democrats that run Colorado, the repeal of the National Popular Vote law has made the 2020 Colorado Ballot.
This is a big win and rarely ever happens. In fact, the last time a repeal initiative made the ballot was 1932. Clearly, citizens want their voices heard.
We wrote about the importance of keeping the Electoral College before. In a nutshell, Colorado will have next to zero say in presidential elections. In fact, New York, California, and the other highly populated states will almost always choose who the president is. Texas is the only state in that small group that leans conservative – but that is changing.
If the initiative succeeds, it sends the Democrats in Colorado a clear message that Colorado voters are paying attention.
We can only hope this will help the Democrats in the state legislature and our Boulder Governor realize they’ve overreached. Hopefully, we will not see our liberties and freedoms suffer further slaughter during the 2020 legislative session.
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It made the 2020 ballot.
In Colorado, a Republican vote for President has not helped a Republican candidate since 2008. All of Colorado’s Electoral Votes have gone to Democrats since then.
If you add up all the runner-up votes and all the surplus votes cast for president, then about 60% of all votes cast for president under the current system do not matter at all.
With National Popular Vote, every voter, in every state, for every candidate, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election.
All votes would count equally towards the national vote
The vote of every voter in the country (Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Green) would help his or her preferred candidate win the Presidency. Every vote in the country would become as important as a vote in a battleground state such as New Hampshire or Florida. The National Popular Vote bill would give voice to every voter in the country, as opposed to treating voters for candidates who did not win a plurality in the state as if they did not exist.
The National Popular Vote bill would give a voice to the minority party voters for president in each state. Now they don’t matter to their candidate.
In 2012, 56,256,178 (44%) of the 128,954,498 voters had their vote diverted by the winner-take-all rule to a candidate they opposed (namely, their state’s first-place candidate).
And now votes, beyond the one needed to get the most votes in the state, for winning in a state, are wasted and don’t matter to presidential candidates.
Utah (5 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 385,000 “wasted” votes for Bush in 2004.
Oklahoma (7 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 455,000 “wasted” votes for Bush in 2004 — larger than the margin generated by the 9th and 10th largest states, namely New Jersey and North Carolina (each with 15 electoral votes).
8 small western states, with less than a third of California’s population, provided Bush with a bigger margin (1,283,076) than California provided Kerry (1,235,659).
This is the big one which will determine if many native Coloradoans stay in this state, or flee to less liberal areas. All persons whom implemented this without the vote and approval of Colorado citizens should be immediately sanctioned, recalled, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is absurd we even have to vote on this and when the vote brings about a repeal of this policy, it will be a clear indication how the runway Colorado government no longer considers the peoples voices as being worth anything. We were absolutely shocked to learn this happened, and we had written letters before hand to express our concern and non-approval position. We need a 1 new law, 2 old laws removed approach right now, given the rampant pace of excessive legislation in this state now.