Senator Jeane Shaheen, Keynote Speaker gave a full five minutes of thank-yous all the way through the Colorado Olympians before beginning her speech at 05:10 mark with what Colorado and New Hampshire have in common, including the fact that they both turned blue in 2008. Shaheen recollects from Gary Hart’s successful 1984 NH campaign, and the we-can-do-the-impossible school of American politics. In response to the naysayer, nope-hoper tone of GOP’s CPAC Conference held the previous week, Shaheen urges us to transmit optimism for a better future.