Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak praised soon-to-be Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday as "a great working-class guy that's going to come out and campaign and campaign hard in Colorado."

"Senator Salazar and I were actually talking about this last night at Red Rocks -- that he's got this foreign policy background, but more importantly, Joe Biden is just a great guy who connects with people," Waak told PolitickerCO.com on the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

Waak offered a story to illustrate her point.

"I was at a luncheon today, on my way to a second luncheon, and my driver that I get for the DNC couldn't get up the street because this motorcade comes zipping up and out comes Joe Biden," Waak said. "And there's a huge crowd there, and he goes right straight into the crowd.

"He's already out there campaigning on the streets of Denver," Waak said, "and that's what we want to happen."