Voter registration ramps-up
in final days before deadline
Tuesday marks the deadline for voter registration;
University groups hopeful to meet their initial goals
BY MORIAH BALINGIT
NEWS REPORTER
Armed with clipboards and ball
point pens, volunteers from a num
ber of organizations have been work
ing with the resilience of postal
workers to register students to vote
on campus in time for Tuesday’s vot
er registration deadline.
The Student Vote Coalition, a stu
dent organization alliance of United
States Student Association, Oregon
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presidential debate and Tuesday’s
vice presidential debate drew huge
crowds, “better than Duck games.”
Although Friday’s debate did
draw a noticeable crowd, it was
nothing compared to the previous
two, he said.
“Might be because of the night of
the week,” Potts said.
About 20 people also gathered in
formally in the Carson residence hall
lobby to watch the debate.
Freshman Kristen Vogt, who
watched at Carson, said the candi
dates performed differently in the
second debate. Vogt said Kerry
seemed to stumble and miss his
cues.
“1 am wondering about Kerry,”
she said. “He seemed off tonight.”
She added that Bush’s perform
ance improved.
“Bush actually did make some
good points this time around, which
did surprise me,” she said, noting
that Kerry still has her vote.
She also said the town-hall for
mat of the debate changed its at
mosphere.
“It felt a little bit more like a three
ring circus,” she said.
Freshman Doug Bonham said he
“couldn’t see how Bush could have
won the debate” because of his style
of addressing the audience.
“He just sounds very argumenta
tive and it doesn’t sit with me very
well at all,” he said.
Bonham said the debate didn’t
change his perspective, adding he is
still coming in against Bush.
Residential Academy Director
Sharon Schuman, who hosted a
nonpartisan viewing of the debate at
Columbia 150, said attendance was
down to 75 people from the nearly
200 who attended a similar showing
of the first debate. She said second
debates are generally less attended,
noting that it was raining, cold and
a Friday night, which also may have
deterred students.
Schuman said both candidates
made at least one particularly strong
point.
She said Kerry aptly pointed out if
Missouri were to get involved in the
war in Iraq, the state’s population
would make it one of the largest coali
tion partners in Iraq, an indication of
the size of the current coalition.
She also said Bush scored by say
ing doctors are currently forced to
practice “defensive medicine.”
“I thought this debate was less
dramatic in the difference between
the two speakers,” Schuman said,
adding that the candidates seemed
to reiterate old talking points and
contributed little new information.
“It was just a question of delivery
tonight,” she said.
Schuman said Bush side-stepped
the last question from the audience,
which asked him to identify three
mistakes he had made during his
tenure as president.
“That’s pretty revealing about his
attitude about his own behavior,”
she said.
Schuman added that she wished
Kerry had been asked the same
question about his record rather
than been allowed to criticize Bush
as a response to the question.
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