The making of a blue state

Colorado is one of the only states in the country that has moved in a steadily Democratic direction over the past 25 years. The graphic below shows how the two-party vote (that is excluding minor party candidates) in Colorado compares with the national two-party vote. Since the 2008 election, Colorado

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