Not all of the rest of Colorado is right-wing nuts, Deda! There are quite a few Boulder/Eastern Slope refugees living over here on the Western Slope, and the rest of us who were either raised liberal and in Colorado or come from elsewhere, raised the same. We're just in less concentrated areas.:-)

I long for the same things you've listed. I've been teasing Rog about packing up and going to Canada. My daughter has been thinking the same thing, esp. if Yale is right in its prediction and that wanking shurb gets in again.

Here's some cause for hope: Wyoming is very conservative. Most of the Republicans up there voted in a Democratic governor. A lot of them do NOT want bush in as prez. any longer. They want a different candidate to run altogether; barring that, they are contemplating actualy voting against him, i.e. for a Democrat! Some of them figure their ancestors will turn over in their graves, but they've had it with him and with their "native" son, Cheney. I never thought I'd see that day!

Our main hope is to make sure as many people get out to vote as we can, imo.

kat