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To: Who, me? who wrote (11966)	10/31/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Marty	Respond to of 67261

Yeah, all us left coasters are whacko. Aside from your visions of Bil Clinton swinging from the porches, do you honestly feel that the Republican tactics in all have been reasonable? Try, try really hard, to confine your response to whether or not the Republican leadership is doing the right thing in the right way.

To: Who, me? who wrote (11966)	10/31/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 67261

Colorado Struggle Typifies Democrats' Erosion in West "This (Colorado) is one of the few places in the West where a Republican can campaign by running against entrenched Democratic control. Across the other four interior Western states of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Utah, Democratic officeholders are as scarce as water in the desert. It wasn't always so bleak for Democrats in the West. Throughout the 1960s, '70s and even '80s, those states and Colorado sent a steady procession of Democrats to Washington to serve in the Senate and House, and even more regularly elected Democrats as governors. Moderate Democrats, such as former Idaho governor Cecil D. Andrus, and even liberal Democrats, such as former Montana representative Pat Williams, enjoyed electoral success year after year." washingtonpost.com "For example, in 1980, the year Ronald Reagan won his first term as president, Democrats controlled the governorships of all five states, six out of the ten Senate seats and a third of the 12 House seats. Today, retiring Colorado Gov. Roy Romer is the lone Democratic governor from the region, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana is the only Democratic senator, and only two of the region's 13 House seats - both in Colorado - remain in Democratic hands. Republicans control 86 percent of the 29 congressional seats and governorships in the five-state region, compared with 48 percent two decades ago. Here in Colorado the change has been particularly dramatic. Hundreds of thousands of new residents, many of them conservative GOP voters from California and Texas, have poured into Colorado in recent years, transforming the politics of a state once considered the most liberal in the West. "It's been a Republican decade," said Floyd Ciruli, a Denver political consultant and pollster. "Republicans have done an incredibly good job with the two values that have dominated this decade, hostility to Washington and tax limitation. They have mastered that dialogue." In a recent survey he conducted, Ciruli found that among those voters who had moved to Colorado within the past decade, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 44 percent to 28 percent. Five years after Democrats held a slight edge in registration, Republicans have a 120,000-voter lead in Colorado. "You see that phenomenon throughout the Rocky Mountain West," Ciruli said. The result in Colorado is that Democrats are struggling to hold onto the meager territory they have left, never mind regaining ground. At risk is not only the governorship, where Owens holds a slim lead over Schoettler, according to the latest tracking poll by the Denver Post and KOA Newsradio, but also the 2nd District congressional seat."