Colorado Democrats are considering whether to rename the party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner and this week launched an online poll to decide.

Party leaders say they’re concerned that the dinner’s namesakes, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, both pioneering Democratic presidents, might be too emblematic of dark periods of the nation’s history and no longer represent the party’s ideals. (The question comes amid a nationwide movement on the left to renounce historic figures once considered heroic.)

“Both men’s legacies and both men’s fortunes were built and sustained by enslaved human beings,” wrote state Democratic Party Chairman Rick Palacio in November. “Failure to acknowledge their participation in slavery, or Jackson’s part in removing Native Americans from their lands, would be irresponsible revisions of our American history and the history of our own Democratic Party.”

In another online poll late last year, respondents were “split pretty evenly” between retaining the name — it’s been the standard Democratic dinner name around the country for decades, much as Republicans celebrate their Lincoln Day dinners — and replacing it with something less fraught.

The choices include leaving it unchanged, because, Palacio says, “No human is perfect, and expecting our heroes to be perfect creates a standard that cannot be attained by anyone.” Besides, he notes, naming it after someone else will only “open their past to investigation that they too will fail.”

Or the Dems could take a page from the opposition and call it the Centennial Dinner (that’s what state Republicans call their annual dinner). Or keep it simple: Colorado Democrats Annual Dinner.

How about the Mount Democrat Dinner, named after the 14er near Fairplay and reflecting the party’s lofty aspirations? (The peak towers above Mount Republican, which is “only” 12,386 feet tall, Palacio notes.)

There’s a link to the poll on the state party’s website. Voting continues through Jan. 15.