cato wrote:
"Dubya won Arizona by double digits, carried Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico. Trump lost Nevada and wasn't even competitive in Colorado or New Mexico."
All three of those states have "changed" considerably since Dubya's time.
They've tipped to the left and probably won't be "tipping back".
Particularly Colorado.
New Mexico (after California) is now the second state where Anglos are a minority.
Arizona -- sandwiched in between CA and NM (with Mexico "below") has withstood "the pressures" for a long time, but it, too, is not immune. It won't even be a "purple state" that many years longer.