Numbers tell great stories, and my favorite tale from FPL and PRR's exit poll analysis yesterday is set in a state called Colorado, where the snow piles high and the religious right has its "Vatican."

In my daily scan of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, I couldn't help noticing that Sarah Palin spent a great deal of time in the Rockies during October, in addition to sitting for a lengthy interview with endorser James Dobson as part of a last-ditch effort to whip up the conservative religious base and win the state.

It didn't work. White evangelicals made up a smaller percentage of Colorado voters than in 2004 (26% then, 24% this year), and they shifted more sharply toward the Democrats here than in any other state, with Obama improving on Kerry's 2004 percentage by ten points (23% to 13%). So, to recap, Sarah Palin didn't bring the conservatives out of the woodwork, evangelicals left the Republican party in significant numbers, and James Dobson couldn't deliver his own constituency in his own back yard.