Well, I have mixed feelings. The good news is, in Colorado we have a democratic governor AND a democratic legislature. None of that Beauprez character who put me in a bah-humbug mood by speaking at my firstborn child's high school graduation! But the bad news is that our brave new domestic partnership bill didn't pass, and the definition-of-marriage amendment did. Bah! The Focus on the Family crowd won despite the Haggart affair, which might have actually hurt our chances rather than help them.
Ditto.
We've still got some pretty toxic people in office in the House (Musgrave, and that guy from Colorado Springs, at the very least, though I don't get CO news down here, so I don't know much about them), and in the Senate (Allard), but at least we have the less-toxic governor.
And, yeah, I think the Haggard affair probably hurt domestic partnership and gay marriage in Colorado, too. I was pretty stressed out by the tone of the stories I read, and worried that there might be more backlash from the anti-gay crowd than support from the people who voted Democrat.
And conservatism in Colorado may have traditionally been of the Libertarian sort, but it sure isn't right now. Republicans who don't tow the socially conservative line have been nearly run out of the party.
I thought it was South Dakota that decided not to ban abortions?