The Honeymoon is Over

The National Popular Vote (NPV) law was not in the State of the State. As the tweet reports, the NPV is partisan, controversial and little understood. A new poll confirms the tweet. As Colorado Politics, Complete Colorado and the Denver Post report, a new Magellan Strategies poll shows a quarter of the population has no opinion on the law, and the remainder are divided about equally on its favorability (34% favorable to 37% unfavorable).

If Republicans manage to get it to the ballot, today, the vote is equally divided at 47 percent. It would most likely lose and Democrats own it. As expected, it’s a partisan decision with 81 percent of Republicans opposed to it and 77 percent of Democrats for it. Currently, unaffiliated voters lean against 44 percent to 48 percent, another sign proponents rushed the law through with little explanation.

Democrats will be playing defense on a law that will produce national attention, but that is peripheral to their state agenda. The honeymoon for Democrats is over, and one of the governor’s and legislature’s least important initiatives may also be the least defensible.

See Colorado Politics: Colorado voters evenly split over “National Popular Vote” law, poll shows