DENVER -- Before you even get inside the Taste of Colorado at Denver's Civic Center Park, you get a taste of politics.

Backers of the controversial Personhood Initiative, which defines life as beginning at conception, passed out literature on the south edge of the park.

Trish Vascrow, who came with her kids to pass out information, told 7NEWS the ballot issue has, "energized the pro-life movement."

Inside the park, the focus is still on food, but there are signs of the political season everywhere.

There was a strong get out the vote drive by both supporters of John McCain and Barack Obama.

McCain supporter Kay Matthews said she was enthused by McCain's choice Sarah Palin as vice president.

Nearby, opponents of Amendment 47 set up a booth with buttons and bumper stickers.

The amendment would make Colorado a right to work state and is seen as anti-union.

Eddie Martinez called the Taste of Colorado a great venue to get in touch with voters.

"It's a huge population that comes out and is willing to listen," he said.

And while Barack Obama is gone from Denver after the convention, his likeness lingers. Gabriel Monge paid $10 for a picture with a cutout of the candidate.

Monge is now a U.S. citizen from El Salvador and in November he will cast his first ever presidential vote.

"From the beginning, I chose Barack Obama," he said.