The prelude to the 2008 election included months of speculation about how then candidate Obama might redraw the political map–and whether that rehash of the political fault lines would be permanent or temporary. Colorado was very much part of that discussion: a state with changing demographics that has elected both Democrats and Republicans to statewide positions in the past decade.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=108493