Re: “Colorado is the leanest state in the nation, again,” Sept. 7 news story.

Your article reported the latest data on U.S. obesity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Colorado again is the leanest state in the nation. The article listed the 10 least and most obese states. There is a remarkable relationship between obesity and presidential preference. According to current polls, eight of the 10 leanest states favor Hillary Clinton, while all of the most obese ones favor Donald Trump. Using data from the 538 blog, the mean percentage of pro-Clinton voters in the lean states is 53.2 percent but only 34 percent in obese states. I’ll leave it to readers to speculate why obese people favor Trump.

D.R. Miklich, Denver

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