This is puzzling: How can Joe Neguse and Lauren Boebert both be from CO and abutting districts?

[George II]

[CrispyQ]

1. Neguse is blue; Boebert is orange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%27s_congressional_districts#/media/File:Colorado_Congressional_Districts,_113th_Congress.tif

[CurtEastPoint]

2. CO 2 is D+12 on the scale

Colorado's 2nd Congressional District
Colorado's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. The district is located in the north-central part of the state and encompasses the northwestern suburbs of Denver including Boulder, Broomfield and much of western Jefferson County. Wikipedia
Population (2019): 824,050
Cook PVI: D+12
Distribution: : 81.04% urban; 18.96% rural;
Ethnicity: 83.0% White; 10.3% Hispanic; 3.1% Asian; 2.0% Two or more races; 0.9% Black; 0.6% other
Median household income: $87,585

[hlthe2b]

3. Boehbert's district is ridiculously drawn. I can guarantee Pueblo (largest city in her district)

is totally fed up with her. The rest of the district is western slope--classically a highly libertarian area that was enamored by the "gun-toting" antics.

She was elected when her opponent, Diane (Mitsch) Bush was ruthlessly attacked for following COVID precautions during her campaigning (more zoom than in-person), for defending "green" energy over Boehbert's oil and gas cronies, and for being an academic (gasp) in contrast to high school drop-out Boehbert, among other things.

[George II]

4. I know, it's ridiculous (but not the worst) It's just surprising that two people so opposite....

....can be from the same state AND from adjoining districts.

But then I've been dumbfounded with Staten Island, part of NYC, being so republican for so long. Max Rose was an anomaly.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Perhaps the mountains create a form of genetic stupidity speciation?

[blogslug]

6. I was born and raised and live in the reddest district in Texas

And yet, I have always been a Democrat.

It's not that puzzling. No town or state is a monolith.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. I read somewhere that Boebert's district is one of the poorest and most dependent on socialism.

.

It's amazing how the states & counties that need the most money from others rail against handouts.

They are happy to take it, yet decry the practice.

.

[randr]

8. The RNC never allows the District

any seniority. They have taken down every Rep who gained any power, always replacing them with one term clowns

[PortTack]

9. JMHO..I look for her to be gone come midterms

[George II]

10. I agree. I think that a sensible republican (did I say that?) will primary her and win.

[Sympthsical]

11. Because college towns tend to be much more liberal than surrounding areas.

Boulder is very, very liberal.