Even Dukakis won that district in its 2001-2011 form in 1988.
evidence? Adams did go for Dukakis but Arapahoe and Jefferson were all GOP strongholds, no?
The portion of Arapahoe that was in the 7th was very heavily Dem and the portion of Jefferson in the district was also about three points more Dem than the county as a whole. The heavily Republican parts of these counties were in the sixth.
However, I am very sorry. I just figured out that the 2001-2011 version of CO-07 did indeed go 51%-47% for Bush in 1988.
Anyway, in 1996, it went 48%-43% for Clinton. Clinton won the Adams part 50%-40%, the Arapahoe part 54%-39% and the Jefferson part(which cast 64% of the total district vote) 46%-45%.