Colorado Initiative Could Be Key to Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com)By Jo Becker, Washington Post Staff Writer

On the Nov. 2 ballot is a voter-driven initiative to amend Colorado’s constitution and make it the first state in the nation to award electoral votes based on the percentage of the popular vote each candidate wins, effective this election. That could have a profound impact on who is elected president.

It means that Kerry could lose the state but still win four of its nine electoral votes, according to Democratic backers and Republican opponents. That prospect has prompted the GOP to mount a fierce challenge to the initiative even as they prepare for a possible post-Election Day legal showdown.

Leave it to the GOP to fight the will of the people on this. This is, of course, the way the whole nation is headed. It is a way to keep the old electoral system while updating it to proportionality. mjh