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On Monday evening, Bob Nemanich sat in a red rocking chair on his front porch in a leafy downtown Colorado Springs neighborhood contemplating the future...
As someone who was fortunate to twice win Electoral College elections, I took great interest in Denver Talk Radio host Mike Rosen’s recent defense of the current system. His attack on the principle of “One Person, One Vote“ embodied in Democrats’ attempts to secure a majority of Electoral College votes for whomever wins the national popular vote borders on bizarre as he attempts to defend a system based, in part, on concepts of the privilege of royalty (e.g., the U.S. Senate paralleling the English House of Lords).
CNN's chief national correspondent, John King, reported Monday afternoon that John McCain's campaign has decided Colorado "is gone," and Democrat Barack Obama will likely win the state.