In These Times is at a crossroads and we urgently need your support. Will you help us raise $50,000 by the end of the week?
When I last posted about my proposal to work at the state level to get states to award their electoral votes proportionally many readers in the comments pointed out, rightly, that if big blug states like California and New York did this without similar changes for Texas and Georgia it would amount to unilateral disarmament. Well it looks like Colorado just might unilaterally disarm:
A plan to scrap the winner-take-all system of allocating electoral votes in Colorado is heading to the ballot in November.
If passed, Amendment 36 would make Colorado the first state to allocate electoral votes proportionately according to the popular vote, rather than giving a winner all of the state's electoral votes.
Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said Friday that supporters have gathered enough signatures to put the measure on the November ballot.
If the proposal had been in place four years ago, Democrat Al Gore would have earned enough electoral votes to go to the White House.
In These Times is only able to publish the fierce, deeply-reported articles we do because of readers like you who contribute a few dollars each month to keep us independent.
If you donate just $5/month or more right now, you'll get a free annual subscription and your support will be felt throughout the newsroom.
Will you support us now? Our goal is to raise $50,000 by the end of the week.
Christopher Hayes is the host of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. He is an editor at large at the Nation and a former senior editor of In These Times.
