Colorado to vote on Single-Payer, on Election Day 2016

[Bandit3 the Worker]

They need to pass this, but I'm not so sure if it will, given the right-wing media's bubbling hatred for health care reform.

[Bojack Horseman]

Even if it does pass, I have a feeling that it will meet the same fate as Vermont's plan did, as Colorado is turning completely red overnight faster than Arkansas did. Single payer in a red state? Highly unlikely.

Not really.

Yeah it kind of is. They elected a Senator who supported Personhood because Obama, voted Republican every election from 1964-1988, then from 1996-2004, 4 out of 7 Congressional districts are held by Republicans despite the fact that Democrats drew the districts, nearly elected a birther as its Governor last November, and the latest polling has every single Republican candidate-even Ted Cruz-leading Hillary Clinton in Colorado. Yeah, they're becoming Arkansas.

[Blue3]

Colorado WAS a red state. It BECAME a swing state, that went for Obama.

Just because it's voted Republican lately too doesn't mean it's a red state, it's just still a swing state.

[Badger]

If it can't pass in Vermont.......

[SWE]

If it can't pass in Vermont.......

...then it has a better chance in a larger, wealthier state that can more easily afford it.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

If it can't pass in Vermont.......

The Vermont legislature approved it. It only went away because of Peter Shumlin's temper tantrum.

[Badger]

If it can't pass in Vermont.......

...then it has a better chance in a larger, wealthier state that can more easily afford it.

Is Colorado truly wealthier than Vermont? Regardless , it is several steps to the right of Vermont and I can't see this passing by referendum. There are over a dozen states i would bet on passing such a measure before Colorado , and expecting the Rocky Mountain state to take the lead as the first state to adopt such an experiment seems unrealistic.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Even if it does pass, I have a feeling that it will meet the same fate as Vermont's plan did, as Colorado is turning completely red overnight faster than Arkansas did. Single payer in a red state? Highly unlikely.

Not really.

Yeah it kind of is. They elected a Senator who supported Personhood because Obama, voted Republican every election from 1964-1988, then from 1996-2004, 4 out of 7 Congressional districts are held by Republicans despite the fact that Democrats drew the districts, nearly elected a birther as its Governor last November, and the latest polling has every single Republican candidate-even Ted Cruz-leading Hillary Clinton in Colorado. Yeah, they're becoming Arkansas.

Disregarding how stupid and hyperbolic this post is, what does CO's 1964-1988 voting habits, or its 1996-2004 voting habits for that matter, have to do with it "turning" red?  LOL.