Douglas County is turning a lighter shade of red — and its ramifications could reverberate from the local school board to Colorado’s seat of power to Washington, D.C., though the prevailing expectation is that Republicans will keep the congressional seat in their column.
Against this backdrop, one long-time Democrat made the distinction that the county is “not turning blue” — it is turning “less red.”
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Still, that political environment, Democrats said, offers them the chance to wrest control away from Republicans in this historically conservative stronghold — or, at the least, keep making gains.
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