HERE’S MORE ON THAT DEFEATED TAX-INCREASE EFFORT IN COLORADO, which I think can be scored as a Tea Party victory. Even in Boulder, it barely won a majority, and in heavily Democratic Denver it lost. “The wide margin of defeat for Proposition 103 could only happen with a substantial majority – something on the order of two-thirds – of unaffiliated (independent) voters opposing the measure, something which portends well for Republican hopes in 2012 elections.”