During a recent campaign speech on Colorado's Western Slope, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper paused and asked for a glass of water. Even in this group of supporters, it was the wrong question to ask.
We gave it all to Denver, a man in the crowd quipped.
Hickenlooper laughed and spun Colorado's long-waging water wars into his campaign's theme of collaboration. But it shows just how different Western Slope politics can be from the Front Range.
