The Wall Street Journal's Political Diary (bt subsription)today has an item on a statewide ballot initiative in Colorado to change the winner—take—all system of allocating the state's Electoral College votes. Instead of a statewide contest for all the Electoral Votes, the votes would be divided according аto the proportion of the vote received by each candidate.

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The article notes that if the system had been in place in 2000, Gore would have won the Presidency. The initiative is being supported by Democrats, who evidently think they have little chance of taking the state's vote, and so want to dilute the fruit harvested by Republican presidential candidates. As the Journal puts it, there are two presidential contests on the ballot this Fall in Colorado.

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