I’m not sure that I agree. I’ve become very cynical about the voting public. I’m not sure that they are that deep. Here’s the link to Ed Quillen’s column in today’s Denver Post. He writes:
Among those listed supporters [of Referendum A in 2003] were Tom Tancredo, who just ran for governor on the American Constitution Party ticket and lost; Tambor Williams, Republican nominee for lieutenant governor on a seriously losing ticket; and Ken Buck, Republican nominee for U.S. Senate and loser to Michael Bennet. Indeed, the only winner on the list was my congressman, Doug Lamborn, then in the state legislature. He won by a landslide, as you’d expect for a Republican in our 5th District, which is dominated by Colorado Springs. It has never, since it was created after Colorado gained a seat in the 1970 census, elected a Democrat.
Click through and read the whole thing. Ed is starting up the conversation around Congressional re-districting.
More 2010 Colorado elections coverage here.