November 10, 2008

Analysis: How Colorado Became the First State to Reject a Ban on Affirmative Action

By Reeves Wiedeman

Ward Connerly's campaign against affirmative action took a hit last week, as Colorado voters narrowly rejected a ballot measure banning preferences based on race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin. The one-percentage-point defeat, the first time a state had rejected such a measure, can largely be credited to Barack Obama, political scientists and other experts say.

Voters in Washington, Michigan, and now Nebraska have all passed similar bans with about 58 percent of the

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