mr. coffman never really endorsed him and senator gardner endorsed him sort of weakly toward the end. so he never really got i think the level of support that night have made the difference. >> -- might have made the difference. >> reporter: i switched this colors are the same. if we pop over to ballot questions, this is amendment 70 and green is yes, red is no, so think stop lights. this is the minimum wage question amendment 70 and you can see all the counties went yes for the minimum wage increase and it was pretty soft opposition in the red counties even in el paso. >> exactly. >> we got a little bit of a cutoff there. >> el paso interestingly while against it overwhelmingly. it was close. that was sort of a tip-off it was going to pass. >> the amendment 72 was the smoking tax. it did have support in boulder and barely in broomfield. all the swing counties totally unconvinced by the yes campaign that wanted to triple the tax on cigarettes. >> interestingly initially i before there was any advertising or anything back in august, just on the general impression that any burden you pu