DENVER — The insurgency rocking the Democratic Party is set to reach mile-high heights on Tuesday, with a trio of primaries in Colorado giving voters a chance to express their anger with the party’s establishment.
The Colorado races are distinct: an ideological battle for a safe blue House seat in Denver, a governor’s race where a longtime senator is in an unexpectedly tight race and a fight for the chance to knock off a vulnerable Republican in the suburbs north of the city. In all three, however, momentum seems to be on the side of the candidate most willing to buck the party’s old ways in a state where moderate Democrats have long reigned.
“Voters are tuning against anybody associated with the establishment,” said Rick Ridder, a longtime Democratic pollster in the state, pointing to this week’s progressive victories on the other side of the country. “We saw it in New York. The same attitudes exist among Democratic primary voters everywhere.”…