The Colorado Democratic Party is strongly downplaying media reports Thursday that the decision by Barack Obama's presidential campaign not to join the state's Democratic Coordinated Campaign may lead to future problems between the Obama camp and the state party.
"Colorado's not all of a sudden a liberal state. It hasn't moved to the left. It's been a few people who have dumped several million dollars in it. But what they've done is (Democrats) have run people who don't have voting records."
-- Rich Beeson, political director for the Republican National Committee.