Why is Colorado suddenly so Republican?

[Sumner 1868]

Funny to see the Republicans in this thread frantically insist they are the preferred party of big money and corporate greed.

[Bojack Horseman]

I wish I was in Ann Arbor...

I'm from a small town 20 miles south of Flint, and about 60 miles north of Detroit. It's in a heavily Republican area where all the Republicans sound like Alan Keyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sfIe_4lK3M

[Rockefeller GOP]

Funny to see the Republicans in this thread frantically insist they are the preferred party of big money and corporate greed.

I don't think either of those things are bad.  Shoot me.

(TNF would.)

[smoltchanov]

I wish I was in Ann Arbor...

I'm from a small town 20 miles south of Flint, and about 60 miles north of Detroit. It's in a heavily Republican area where all the Republicans sound like Alan Keyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sfIe_4lK3M

Your area is NOT a whole country. And it's a foolish thing to make a widespread generalizations based on  local area political behavoir...

[Skill and Chance]

BTW any explanation for why it was the state house that flipped narrowly GOP in 2010 but the state senate instead in 2014?

[All Along The Watchtower]

I think it was Andrew Gelman or someone like that who said that "both parties are parties of the rich, but the Republicans are more so."

Anyway, this obsession over whose side is more clever/brilliant/educated/intelligent strikes me as elitist in a bad way.

[Rockefeller GOP]

I think it was Andrew Gelman or someone like that who said that "both parties are parties of the rich, but the Republicans are more so."

Anyway, this obsession over whose side is more clever/brilliant/educated/intelligent strikes me as elitist in a bad way.

I'd agree, and if I've given off the impression of embracing elitism, I apologize to all.  I'm from a small, gun-loving state that takes pride in being "rural" (that seems to have a more "negative" meaning in other regions of this country), and I actually have a healthy dislike for TRUE elitism, but I think the general practice of blaming "corporate America" is lame, lazy and short-sighted, and I REALLY hate when people who shouldn't be elitist (LOL, not that ANYONE should ever be) are ... if you need an example, scroll up and read the works of this thread's Michigan Democrat...