Interesting food for thought on the value of investing in local races. Is this a case of message saturation from local level swamping out the national media trends? Lots of energized state reps. running with the infrastructure to organize their friends and local constituencies? It will be interesting to see how the $1.6 was spent in CO.
Colorado Democrats say their success carries a lesson for the national party. "We campaigned on pragmatism," state Democratic Chairman Christopher Gates said. "We set ourselves up as the problem solvers, while the Republicans were hung up on a bunch of fringe social issues like gay marriage and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Both parties agree that the Democrats did a better job of registering voters and turning them out. Further, Colorado Democrats reversed a traditional GOP edge in fundraising, largely through "the four horsemen," four multimillionaires who helped plan and finance the statewide Democratic effort to win control of the legislature....who poured $1.6 million into a Democratic fund for state legislative races that are usually run on the cheap.
