Colorado is one of two blue states in the Rocky Mountain region, a clear anomaly in a sea of red for almost 20 years. The gradual shift from conservative stronghold to political outlier has left many asking: What makes the Centennial State different from its Western neighbors? The answer, put simply, is that Colorado has Democratic demographics. Democrats tend to be more educated, wealthy and concentrated in urban areas, according to Pew Research Center. Colorado is the fourth-most educated state, among the wealthiest in the U.S. and has over three million people living near the Denver metro area. “It's such an educated state; it's a wealthy state, a cosmopolitan state, (and) that tends to align with even the national Democratic Party right now,” said Kyle Saunders, a political science professor at Colorado State University. “Educated, wealthy, cosmopolitan people do not tend to vote for Trump, and so that has led the Republican Party in Colorado to be not doing very well.” Read the...