Election Day is less than a week away, so Denverite hit the city to see what voters are thinking about.

But we didn’t just go for vanilla man-on-the-street interviews. No! We went to a dog costume contest in Highland, a chili cook-off on Colfax Avenue, southwest Denver’s Wellshire Golf Course and Johnny Lee Sandoval’s annual Halloween puppet show to chat with strangers about local politics.

The big ticket this year is Mayor Mike Johnston’s Vibrant Denver bond package, which has been split up into five separate ballot measures. It would approve up to $1 billion in debt for infrastructure projects, paid off with the city’s current property taxes.

Denver voters have almost always approved measures like these in recent years, but we’re waiting to see if a new era in city and U.S. has change

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