In Colorado, Bernie Sanders isn't just acting as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton. He's also holding separate events to keep his movement and its issues alive in a state he won handily in the June Democratic primary.
Now he is urging his followers to support a ballot measure to establish the nation's first universal health care system. It will probably be defeated, yet his backers, who have settled for a bird in the hand this year, are certain they own the future.
Changing demographics may be on on their side, and what happens in Colorado could be a model for the rest of the U.S. That doesn't necessarily mean that the European-style changes Sanders has passionately advocated for the U.S. will take place anytime soon.
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