Blogger Notes

- Here are the votes I’ve compiled so far … these numbers reflect the recent shift from red to blue. I’m going to create an excel spreadsheet for all these statistics. There are a couple other Web sites that provide numbers from previous elections … but I’d like to dissect the sites first to determine which ones are best.

2008
Barack Obama/Joe Biden (DEM) – 1,288,576; 53.66% (elected)
John McCain/Sarah Palin (REP) – 1,073,589; 44.71%

2004
George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (REP) 1,101,256 (elected)
John Kerry/John Edwards (DEM) - 1,001,725
Total votes: 2,147,224

2000
George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (REP) - 883,748 (elected)
Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (DEM) - 738,227

1996
Dole/Kemp (REP) - 691,848
Clinton/Gore (DEM) - 671,152 (elected)

Source: Colorado Secretary of State Elections Center (http://www.elections.colorado.gov/DDefault.aspx?tid=398&vmid=1149)

1992
Bill Clinton/Al Gore (DEM) - 629,681; 40.13% (elected)
George H.W. Bush/Dan Quayle (REP) - 562,850; 35.87%

- Check out this CNN graph I found. It seems Colorado’s voter turnout (as a percentage of the voting age population) has consistently been above the national average:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/pre/CO/history.html

- Interesting article from the Rocky that adds a little bit of perspective to things:
http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/27/colorado-election-history-101/

* I’ll start looking into potential expert sources this weekend/next week as well.

CHJ