DENVER — Hours before the first presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama kicks off here, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said the candidate who can most effectively reach out to women has the best chance of winning the state’s large swath of notoriously independent voters.Coloradans are obsessed with their state’s purple nature and speak with pride about their independent electorate. Hickenlooper, who enjoys an approval rating among the highest of any governor in the country, is generally seen as a man who knows what the independent voters of his state are thinking about.
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