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Colorado used to be very polarized, but that's not so true anymore. It leans pretty strongly blue now: > Biden won Colorado with over 55% of the vote, and by a
by caseyohara 3y ago
Colorado used to be very polarized, but that's not so true anymore. It leans pretty strongly blue now:
> Biden won Colorado with over 55% of the vote, and by a victory margin of 13.50%, an 8.6 percentage point improvement on Clinton's victory in the state four years prior, the strongest Democratic performance since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and the first time that it voted for a presidential candidate of either major party by a double-digit percentage since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
> In this election, Colorado weighed in as 9.1% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. The results established Colorado as a Democratic stronghold, rather than the Democratic-leaning battleground state it had been for the past three election cycles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Colorado#:~:text=On%20the%20day%20of%20the,it%20voted%20for%20a%20presidential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
- epmatsw 3y agoIt helps that the Colorado Republican party is about as ineffective of a political group as I've ever seen. If they were even moderately competent Boebert's district, Colorado Springs, and to a lesser extent the new district (Caraveo's) would be much redder than they voted the past cycle.
- method_capital 3y agoGood lord. Not voting for trump doesn't make us "blue".
- narendasan 3y agoThe national political lens is probably the absolutely least informative way to understand Colorado politics. CO politics isn't just a miniature version of the national debate. Our governor is a libertarian in all but name. 96% of the bills in the legislature were bipartisan sponsored last year. 45% of the state is unaffiliated with a party and in 2022, the majority of them voted in the republican primary over the democratic one. The rest of the electorate is split down the middle D and R.