Economist: "Over the past few years other Democrats have also won prominent races in the heart of the interior West. They have taken over governors' mansions in four of the region's eight states (Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and Wyoming) since 2002. Bill Ritter in Colorado will soon become the fifth, if he hangs on to his strong lead in the race to succeed Bill Owens, a term-limited Republican. In 2004 Mr Salazar's younger brother, Ken, beat Pete Coors, a Republican beer magnate, to win one of Colorado's Senate seats. Another Senate seat could be forthcoming in Montana, where Jon Tester is leading against the three-term incumbent, Conrad Burns. And as the Democrats vie for control of the House this year, open seats in Arizona and Colorado are among their very best chances to make gains...
"The state to watch is Colorado, which has nine electoral votes. Over the past two decades the parties have tended to alternate in power at all levels: its two Senate seats are now split, and Democrats retook the state legislature in 2004. Voters' ideas have not changed much over that period: the parties just take turns letting them down. Republicans have done that recently by going to extremes on both social and tax issues. State legislators, for example, have been preoccupied with university professors' behaviour, cooling off periods for divorce and other sops to the right wing. The Christian right conducts increasingly vicious primary battles."
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