Colorado Senate Passes Bill Nixing Electoral College in Favor of Popular Vote
The Democratic-majority Colorado state Senate passed a bill this week that would give the state’s electoral votes in presidential elections to the candidate who wins the popular vote instead of the Electoral College.
Colorado’s Senate passed the bill in a 19-16 vote Tuesday along party lines.
The bill would mandate that the state’s members of the Electoral College vote for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote....
The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Mike Foote (D-Lafayette), would have allowed Colorado to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact with 11 other states and the District of Columbia....
CAIRCO Note
It should be noted that Republican majority state legislative bodies do not favor this misguided initiative. But Democrat majority legislative bodies do - for example, Colorado's state Senate. The reason is that the east and west coast states vote predominantly Democrat. Those states have huge populations compared to interior states. The popular vote initiative would effectively force nominally Republican states to cast their presidential votes with the Democrat coastal votes.
2016 US Presidential Election Map By County and Vote Share
