re: #398 HappyWarrior

Shame. I really thought Colorado was trending blue for good. Really sucks that Udall is going to lose to that con artist Gardner.

People have to keep in mind that Colorado, culturally, is three different states. You have the Front Range (all the “big” cities on the very edge of the Great Plains, right where the mountains start), you have the ski areas, and you have everything else (the eastern plains, the ranch land, the mountainous areas that are far away from a ski area).

The differences are stark. Colorado, like the rest of the nation, is deeply divided on a lot of things. Sure, the Democrats have had good years in Colorado, enough to dominate government for a few years. But just a few years.

Remember, in 2012 many counties in the eastern plains of Colorado voted on whether or not to secede from the state of Colorado. They voted no, but two counties voted yes.