Colorado ticket splitters say yes to Dems, but no to their policies

My prediction for this election: Voters will vote against … themselves.

Voters will elect Democrats to run virtually everything — and then approve ballot measures telling those Democrats to stop doing virtually everything.

Democrats for office. Limited government for policy. Colorado has reinvented ticket splitting without the inconvenience of electing Republicans.

The new ticket splittingWe used to split tickets the old-fashioned way. The same Coloradan might vote for a Democratic governor such as Dick Lamm or Roy Romer and a Republican senator such as Bill Armstrong or Hank Brown.

Voters often made sure at least one legislative chamber belonged to the party opposing the guy in the governor’s mansion.

The experts called it inconsistency. Voters called it adult supervision.

But that was then. Today, Coloradans just vote for Democrats. Years of one-party control have made the state less affordable, more bureaucratic and less tolerant — and voters are feeling it.

That will change how they vote this fall, just not in the way Republicans hope.

Coloradans will continue electing Democrats to every statewide office. They could easily hand the party veto-proof supermajorities in both the state House and Senate.

And these won’t merely be more Democrats. They will include more socialists disguised as Democrats: woke, economy-crippling, power-hungry leftists eager to engineer our lives for our own good — and charge us for the privilege.

So you might reasonably conclude Colorado voters want more taxes, more regulation and more restrictions.

I don’t think they do.