Ok, so I'm sure by the headline a bunch of you think I'm crazy (of course you may have thought that before you read this). Yeah I'm against Amendment 36 (this is the amendment that would split the Colorado Electoral votes for this election) and here's why. It isn't right. Let me explain.

Honestly I don't know how I feel about the Electoral College, although I did read a good bit about it after the 2000 election and from what I remember reading I do think it serves a purpose. Now I don't like to debate issues that I don't know a good deal about so let me get to why I'm against amendment 36. Why should Colorado be able to do against the entire country and have our votes be counted differently than everyone else's? I don't know much about election law so maybe I'm just totally wrong here, but it seems that the argument for this amendment is that now "my vote will count" since it's no longer a winner take all system. While that sounds good (to me too) what doesn't seem right to me is that would mean my vote counts more votes from other states (like Florida). If this were a national ballot item I think I would probably vote for it (or at least have to read a lot about it). Since this is a national election, not a state election, changes should be on the national scale.

End soap box speak 17-B.