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Posted on 05/08/2025 8:53:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Colorado's economic report card is in, and my beloved home state — formerly a solid A and B student — just flunked every subject.
Once upon a time, Colorado was a devilishly weird purple state — home to moderate-to-conservative Republicans like Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Tom Tancredo, idiosyncratic Democrats like Gary Hart and Richard Lamm, and (outside the Denver-Boulder Axis) a healthy libertarian streak.
It was such a swirl that one of those famous Republicans, Campbell, was originally a Democrat.
That all began to change around 2008 when my purple state went deep blue for Barack Obama. By 2018, the hope'n'change was locked in. The last Republican to win statewide office was in 2016, when Heidi Ganahl was elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents. The last Republican to win a Senate seat was Cory Gardner in 2014, and he served but a single term.
Colorado's Democrats are no longer hard to pin down. The party is increasingly dominated by the hard left, and the party has dominated the general assembly going back to 2018. Today, Dems hold both chambers by a two-to-one margin. Whatever they want, they get.
How's that workin' out for us?
And Another Thing: After my report earlier today on "Self-Occupied Britain," I feel like Mr. Doom-and-Gloom. Maybe I'll devote my next few columns to an in-depth investigation into those adorable LOLcats.
Before we went Full Indigo, Colorado was pretty well run. This is my state — or was, using figures from before 2018:
- Third in the nation for personal income growth.
- A regulatory burden in the lower half of all states.
- Tied for second-lowest unemployment in 2017 at 2.7% — and that wasn’t unusual.
- Job growth of 2.4% in 2017 — typical for a state that was
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I used to live in Colorado. I lived there for 22 years. I totally agree.
All the states that have a climate my wife likes are like this (Colorado, Oregon, Washington, etc.)
I lived there for about 40yrs. Loved it. Glad I got out.
I do miss the mountains.
Like so many blue states, they keep voting for more and more blue-ish governments and can not figure why they get deeper and deeper into trouble.
Electorate brains do not seem common to these states.
Colorado was Californicated.
California parasites moving in for 20 years does this.
I'd bet that a huge percentage of Colorado's voters are migrants from Kalifornia.
It's almost cliche by now but I think I see the problem here.
Happened in California too - in the 80s.
It’s been downhill ever since and we now have a deep blue government and $5.00/gallon gas.
To see your future, Colorado, look no further than the mess that is California.
My son just moved to Colorado Springs. He’s the farthest from a liberal you can get.
California metastasis.
Same here lived there 50 years Aurora and Greeley. Glad to be out of there left in 2014. Miss the mountains.
Blame the Denver/Boulder/Aspen triangle.
Try Idaho.
Idaho is becoming Californicated.
And John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High."
I lived there from 1965 until 2012, it was a great place to grow up; leftists have destroyed the place, unfortunately.
The Peoples Republic of Minnesota is faring no better under Governor Tampon Tim Walz and a Democrat Legislature. An 18 billion dollar surplus has been changed to a 7 billion dollar deficit and the state is a mirror for Colorado and its failures.
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