The blueprint : how the Democrats won Colorado, and why Republicans everywhere should care

I work for one of the many progressive organizations in Colorado that constitute the Colorado Model. Reading this book filled in the gaps of my knowledge about Colorado's big name progressive donors, the landscape of progressive organizations, and the inner workings of CoDA and the Roundtable. I walked away from the book: 1) proud that I had wound up in Colorado when there are resources to fight for progressive wins, 2) proud that I had wound up at one of the many progressive orgs in Colorado fighting for this kind of change and 3) proud that I had wound up in progressive fundraising.

The strategic deployment of cynical falsehoods only gets you so far

I was hoping this would make me feel better about the impending electoral massacre on November 4, but instead it just reminded me of the gulf between the art of telling people what they want to hear to get elected and actually giving them what they want when you are.