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November 27, 2007

RIC students vote early, real early

Rhode Island College is getting a jump on Decision 2008.

Students tomorrow will cast votes in a "primary" for the current crop of presidential contenders. The college said in a news release today that the primary is one of a year's worth of efforts aimed at "engaging college students in the electoral process and urging them to vote in the 2008 presidential election."

The college, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis and the state Board of Elections will hold a "campaign rally" tonight from 6 to 9 in Roberts Auditorium, where representatives from each candidate’s campaign will discuss issues of the 2008 election.

Represenatives from the campaigns of Giuliani, Romney, McCain, Thompson, Tancredo, Biden, Clinton, Edwards, Gravel, Obama, Kucinich, Huckabee and Paul have confirmed they will be at tonight's rally, the college said.

Each presidential campaign representative is invited to hold a demonstration to drum up support for his or her candidate and answer student questions.

Commercials and taped messages from candidates will be shown during the rally.

Victor Profughi, a Rhode Island College professor emeritus of political science, will moderate.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 12:25 PM | Permalink

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