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Urban/Rural divide in Colorado The urban/rural divide in American politics has roots that extend back to the founding of the country. From the first history courses students take in the U.S., we learn about the different interests ...

For more on the urban/rural divide in Colorado, see this analysis: www.co-political-landscape.org/urban-rural-...

Colorado, like most places in the country, has a strong urban/rural political divide where people in more rural places tend to hold more conservative attitudes.

Interestingly, despite a substantial partisan gap in views about data centers, there is no urban/rural divide

A graph showing Coloradans' attitudes about whether building data centers in Colorado would have more benefits (only 17% say this) or more downsides (57% say this). There is a modest partisan divide with Republicans being more likely than Democrats to feel like there would be benefits from data centers, but a plurality of Republicans (42%) say there would be more downsides than benefits (29%). Democrats are more united in their opposition (66% downsides / 12% benefits). Notes: The Colorado Polling Institute only released data among partisan identifiers. Parenthetical percentages show the share of the sample in each group. Source: Colorado Polling Institute survey conducted March 20-25, 2026. Available at https://copollinginstitute.org/poll/2026-04-april-statewide-poll/.

New analysis highlighting some interesting findings from the latest Colorado Polling Institute survey:

tl;dr Coloradans are not enthusiastic about data centers

www.co-political-landscape.org/coloradans-a...

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2026-04: April Statewide Poll - Colorado Polling Institute

Also, check out the good work of the Colorado Polling Institute: copollinginstitute.org/poll/2026-04...

Colorado's Political Landscape Data-driven exploration of the drivers of Colorado politics

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A graph showing Coloradans' attitudes about whether building data centers in Colorado would have more benefits (only 17% say this) or more downsides (57% say this). There is a modest partisan divide with Republicans being more likely than Democrats to feel like there would be benefits from data centers, but a plurality of Republicans (42%) say there would be more downsides than benefits (29%). Democrats are more united in their opposition (66% downsides / 12% benefits). Notes: The Colorado Polling Institute only released data among partisan identifiers. Parenthetical percentages show the share of the sample in each group. Source: Colorado Polling Institute survey conducted March 20-25, 2026. Available at https://copollinginstitute.org/poll/2026-04-april-statewide-poll/.

New analysis highlighting some interesting findings from the latest Colorado Polling Institute survey:

tl;dr Coloradans are not enthusiastic about data centers

www.co-political-landscape.org/coloradans-a...

#copolitics

I never used to, but YouGov has something called birthday leave and I gotta admit that it is kinda nice

Wikipedia tells me there are Mexican and Brazilian versions of slug bug. Are there European versions? Is this a western hemisphere phenomenon?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car-spo...

I am very much enjoying @anneleckie.com's Translation State. It is making me want to reread the ancillary series.

Clearview Reads 2026 | Joel H. Morris

For people in the Northern Colorado area, this should be a great event: www.cldfriends.org/cr26

Come support a local author either in the VIP event on Friday or the main talk on Saturday. See the link for details.

Are VW bug drivers aware of the havoc they leave in their wakes?

In Which I Make the Trump Jesus Post About Us - By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog When the first Mormon art propagandist, CCA Christensen, began painting Mormon history in a flat, literalistic, maudlin style, he could not have predicted that another Mormon would one day deeply infl...

My first reaction to the Trump-as-Jesus image was to assume it was a particularly tasteless (which is saying something) new McNaughton painting... bycommonconsent.com/2026/04/14/i...

Would also love to see thoughts on this (from survey researchers, not other people with thoughts on LLMs generally)

... it feels like this behavior shouldn't be automatically disqualifying.

It feels to me like part of a larger debate about cleaning out inattentive respondents. At a certain point, if you ratchet up the QC measures too high, you are threatening other aspects of representativeness, no?

Survey researchers:

What are people's general thoughts about disqualifying respondents who seem to be using LLM output in their open-ended responses?

Obviously, this is something we would prefer that people not do, but giving the way AI 'assistants' have been shoved into people's lives ...

if it isn't it should be!

One of my favorite wikipedia pages: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_c...

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There's been some talk about Colorado joining the mid-cycle redistricting fracas. In my latest post, I break down what that might look like with some simulations:

www.co-political-landscape.org/colorado-red...

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spring song (Lucille Clifton) the green of Jesus is breaking the ground and the sweet smell of delicious Jesus is opening the house and the dance of Jesus music has hold of the air and the world is turning in the body of Jesus and the future is possible https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54587/spring-song-56d2351b45223

To all who celebrate: Happy Easter!

A season of hope in dark times that reminds us that the future is possible.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54587/...

(I very much recommend going to the link above so you can hear a recording of Clifton reading her poem)

spring song (Lucille Clifton) the green of Jesus is breaking the ground and the sweet smell of delicious Jesus is opening the house and the dance of Jesus music has hold of the air and the world is turning in the body of Jesus and the future is possible https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54587/spring-song-56d2351b45223

To all who celebrate: Happy Easter!

A season of hope in dark times that reminds us that the future is possible.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54587/...

(I very much recommend going to the link above so you can hear a recording of Clifton reading her poem)

Barnett Newman | National Gallery of Art This gallery presents what many consider American painter Barnett Newman’s greatest achievement.

On this Good Friday, I'm thinking about the only art exhibit that has actually moved me to tears: Barnett Neuman's Stations of the Cross at the National Gallery.

It was a very powerful experience. Something you really have to see in person to really understand.

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

LDS voters have moved to the left faster than any other group in recent years. Will that trend continue? No group has moved leftward faster politically in the past 20 years than U.S. Latter-day Saints. They're still solidly Republican but less so. A few theories on why, and whether the trend will continu...

The @sltrib.com covered some of my research as it relates to Mormons' political leanings.

"Lurch" isn't the word I would use (the drift has been pretty steady over the past 20 years), but headlines gonna headline

www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Opinion | The Democrats’ Looming 2032 Cliff

My work was featured in Tom Edsall's latest column (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

You can find the original report here: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A graphic showing the change in party balance for several major religious groupings in the US. Most have moved away from the Democratic Party. Mormons and atheists are the only groups considered here who moved toward the Democratic Party.

To be clear, for all the movement they've made over the past two decades, they are still the second most Republican leaning religious grouping we looked at.

yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Why Latter-day Saints are bucking the national trends on political identification Is the GOP losing ground with Latter-day Saints?

The Desert News picked up a nugget from my report on partisan trends over the past 20 years. Mormons have been moving away from the Republican Party at a pretty steady pace: www.deseret.com/politics/202...

Opinion | The Democrats’ Looming 2032 Cliff

My work was featured in Tom Edsall's latest column (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

You can find the original report here: yougov.com/en-us/articl...

A unicorn protester with my youngest at the no kings rally in Windsor Colorado

We had a decent showing at the Windsor, Colorado No Kings rally.

This is a really interesting read

(tangentially, it's still kind of wild to me that we now have ~20-year longitudinal trends that are entirely online-mode; relevant here in that how hard you push indies to lean can matter, so it's nice to have apples-to-apples data)