The results from Colorado’s U.S. House District 4 are representative of the nation as a whole in many ways.

• The voter demographic is approximately 1/3 each Democrat, Independent, and Republican.
• The less-populated rural areas voted for Republicans, while the heavily-populated urban areas voted for Democrats.
• An unpopular incumbent was replaced by someone from the opposing party, even though (s)he was quite liberal.

At first glance, this would lead one to believe that people no longer believe in the conservative cause of freedom and small government. There are certainly enough pundits, even so-called conservative ones that claim this is the case, and if we want to regain power we must move even farther to the left. The only problem with this is, based on a post-election survey of these same voters, it just isn’t true.

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