If you seriously think Colorado is the most liberal state in the Union, even more so than New York, California, or Massachusetts, then you really need to come out from under that rock now and then. There are a couple of lib counties in CO, largely because some of the smarter Californians jumped ship early on and ended up there, but the state overall is basically conservative.
Colorado may be a little nutty, but that person needs to come to LA to see what real progressivism looks like..this state is so far to the left Reagan, who absolutely ADORED California, wouldn’t recognize it
That basically conservative Tea Party bastion has two Democratic Senators, a Democratic governor, went for Obama twice, and will be safely Blue in 2016.