Ameilius:
1) Many people moved from California to Colorado when Bush Sr. slashed the military budget long ago.
2) Boulder libs have spilled over into Denver
3) After 911 many east coast libs moved into the mountains.
The rural vote used to override Boulder and North Denver but now the mountain libs are tipping the scales blue.
This story is actually very bad news. Erie is very conservative and now with less jobs they will be moving looking for work. So, unfortunately, this will color us even more blue.
In one of the recent posts here regarding the recalls in Colorado, one Freeper who works in auto repair said that actually, based on cars coming into Colorado needing safety inspections that he sees, the winner was people arriving from Minnesota, with a lot of Eastern transplants following.
They bring their infection with them and, not wanting to/unable to counter their plague, we flee.