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Colorado has gone back and forth a few times, but it hasn't gone for a Democratic candidate since Bill Clinton in 1992, he lost in 1996
過去科羅拉多在紅藍陣營間多次搖擺，但它在1992年支持克林頓以后還沒支持過民主的候選人，96年克林頓失守科羅拉多
Colorado is unlike a lot of other Republican leaning states in that it has very high levels of education
科羅拉多州與其他支持共和黨的州相比不同的是它的公民受教育程度非常高
Also has a lot of people who moved there for the natural amenities, who tend to be more under Democratic side
同時也有很多人是為了當地的宜人環境才移居的，這些人都更傾向支持民主黨
It also has some very strongly conservative areas
科羅拉多也有非常保守的地區
I can't pair this with a map of the topography
這里沒法把地形圖也放在旁邊對比
Certainly the Great Plains the flat area in the east very Republican voting
事實上在東部的大平原地區，共和黨支持率是非常高的
The sort of high desert plateau area of the far west with a lot of Mormons tends to be Republican voting
同時在最西部的沙漠高原地區居住著大量的摩門教徒，傾向共和黨
It's along the Front Range where you have the big cities
科羅拉多的大城市則分布在福蘭特山脈沿線
From Fort Collins down to Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs, that's the crucial battle ground area
從北往南有柯林斯堡，博爾德，丹佛再到科羅拉多泉，這些城市是兩黨必爭之地
In the mountains you have a lot of small counties, a lot of these have very low populations but they go back to the mining days
在山脈附近分布了很多小縣，這些縣人口非常少，過去煤礦開發時期人口較多
Some of those lost population after the mines closed down and it had been reborn as ski resorts
然而隨著煤礦相繼關閉，很多人也陸續離開，而后這些縣被重新開發為滑雪勝地
Mountain areas again natural amenity zones they tend to be very Democratic voting
還是那個規律，自然資源優越之地常常是非常支持民主黨的
so you can see there's not many people here but you have a county like Pitkin County right here
所以雖然這些地區不多，但是像皮特金縣這樣的地方
You can't see it there but it's a very very dark blue, that's where Aspen is
你也許看不清，該縣呈非常深的藍色，這是艾斯本市的所在地
