Posted on 11/30/2018 10:14:14 AM PST by re_tail20
Social scientists, say Colorado boosters, have plausible metrics identifying their state as the happiest and healthiest state, the former quality perhaps producing the latter. Or the other way around. Or maybe the tangle of causation cannot be unwoven. Be that as it may, 300 days of sunshine – this Mile High City is practically cheek-by-jowl with the sun – entice people into outdoor activities that help the state have chubby America's lowest obesity rate.
Among the least happy and healthy Colorado cohorts is the Republican Party, which is less svelte than emaciated. This state is in many ways a glimpse of the nation's future, so when national Republicans are done congratulating themselves on having lost only the most important half of what the Constitution's Framers considered the most important branch – Congress is accorded Article I for a reason – they should study Colorado's changing tint, from purple toward blue.
When asked whether his party's rout of Republicans on Nov. 6 indicated that many voters recoiled when they saw "R" next to a candidate's name, Gov.-elect Jared Polis demurs, saying that what they effectively saw was: "T." Polis, and many of the Democratic candidates who will be in lopsided majorities in both chambers of the next state legislature, did not need much more help than Donald Trump. This flight from the president's party matters as a national portent because Denver and its suburbs, which undulate east toward the plains and west toward the mountains, contain 50 percent of the electorate. Eighty percent is in the booming urbanization of the Front Range from Fort Collins and Greeley down to Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
Also, Colorado's population has a lower median age than those of 38 states, and its Hispanic percentage, 21, is the nation's seventh largest. The state ranks second behind...
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The people fleeing those areas are bringing that stupidity with them. Colorado is beautiful, and that's why money flush Californians want to move there.
California itself is becoming overrun with Illegals, and has become a much more dangerous place over the years. These white liberals are fleeing the state to get away from the "brown" people, but they wouldn't dare admit it.
BUT, he's right on this assessment
And Ann Coulter is correct about Trump being the last GOP President.
Idiots like Kasich and Flake will run 3rd party and peel off enough votes for the Dem to beat Trump in 2020.
Will was once a staffer of the late CO Senator Gordon Allot.
Yep. CO is ripe for fraud.
George Will, a nerd’s nerd.
The pot capital of the US spurned anything that smacks of responsible government. They are well on their way to becoming an LA type ghetto.
George Will should go ESAD.
George Will? I thought he died?
The pot capital of the US spurned anything that smacks of responsible government. They are well on their way to becoming an LA type ghetto.
Unfortunately, every state is ripe with voter fraud.
The problem is, whenever a state enacts voter ID or some other measure of ensuring only legal citizens of the state vote, some judge puts the stop to it.
I don’t think we have any way to fight it because politicians don’t see it as a big deal. They’ll still have their phony-baloney jobs.
The Hispanic population of Colorado has grown 6 fold since 1970
That’s the bigger problem....nearly 25% now and in colorado Latinos vote 70% democrat
So that’s a solid 17.5 percent of the electorate right there
Yes, I imagine that is a serious part of it. It’s also having the same effect in California.
Why do you think FlaKKKe the DemoKKKrat is trying to block the appoint of Trump judges before he leaves for a nice big payday from the DemoKKKratzi Party?
It's due to the massive influx of illegal aliens into CO who voted solidly for demoncrats...
The candidate for governor spent over $20M of his own money to get around the election laws. The gay mafia is at war with Colorado for a vote to make marriage between a man and a woman. Not long ago the only republican in the Boulder county vote had been a democrat two months earlier.
Criminal government?
George Will is as tedious and boring as ever.
Truthfully, I thought he was dead.
George Will was Californicated long ago; Gang raped by the leftist Zeitgeist
Pelham will tell us immigration killed California
Immigration killed California.
(wardaddy knows his posters)
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