A recent Denver Post report on the state of affairs in Colorado affirmed what Democrats have seen nationally—that their brand has become the Bud Light of political parties. Another recent Quinnipiac University poll affirmed the same, the Democrat party is in freefall and is deeply unpopular nationwide and traditionally blue Colorado isn’t immune from the same trend.

“The strength of Republicans’ identification with working- class issues is a warning shot for a party that’s lost ground across the country,” reported the left-leaning Denver Post in a September 16 feature. Reliably blue Colorado has seen a dramatic political shift rejecting Democrat policies, suggesting the long-time blue state may be in play for Republicans for the first time in nearly two decades. The poll was conducted by Keating Research and looked at the state’s top Democrats running for Governor. The upshot was that state voters have grown weary of Democrat policies and the people associated with them.

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