If everything goes as planned, the setting sun will paint the Rocky Mountains purple for the network television cameras just as Sen. Barack Obama's nomination-night pageant gets under way Thursday at Invesco Field at Mile High.
It's an appropriate color, since Democratic strategists plan to win back the White House by cracking the red-and-blue stalemate of the usual electoral map with victories in the new battleground states of the interior West.
"From a pure strategic analysis, it's one of the few places where the Democrats have a chance of rewriting the map," said Floyd Ciruli, a pollster in Denver. READ FULL ARTICLE
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