Introduction

Welcome to my Colorado politics site. My plans are to update this site regularly with original analyses and visualizations of demographic and social trends that have some bearing on Colorado's political landscape.

I was raised in Colorado from a very young age (my parents moved me here when I was about a year old), and after a long hiatus, my family and I have returned to Northern Colorado.

My training is in political science (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016), and I spent my early career working at the Pew Research Center in D.C. I started there in 2016 and left in 2022 (you can find my work while I was there, here). I currently work for YouGov consulting on custom research projects for a wide range of different clients.

I have, as they say, a very particular set of skills, and I'm excited to apply them to the case of Colorado and how it compares to other states. Colorado is one of the only states that has been moving steadily toward the Democratic Party over the past quarter century, and I think it makes for an interesting case study.

My hope is to help whatever audience is interested better understand how Colorado has changed over the past 50 years and what it might portend for the future.