… On a brilliantly sunny July Fourth, I spoke with about three dozen voters milling in parks, in this professional-tilting suburb wedged between Denver and Boulder, and in Littleton, a more blue-collar community south of Denver. Despite all the state’s political tumult, the conversations mostly demonstrated the stability of attitudes undergirding our intractable red-blue divide. …
These conversations capture a familiar danger confronting Democrats—here and nationally. Demography is expanding their coalition, which largely welcomes their agenda. But their voters seem lukewarm about the economy and Obama’s record. Meanwhile, conservatives are seething against Democratic initiatives they consider systematic government overreach. [cont.]
Ron Brownstein, National Journal