the top secret rumor mill says the iowa new voters project (a dem backed "non partisan" 527 bent of the election of john kerry by registering voters of college campus) accidently registered 12000 republicans and 4000 democrats on iowas campusus. we had considerable concerns about regisration fraud, and had our lawyers involved, but the numbers look good, and i myself registered as a rublican with them, and my card came just fine, and i sucessfully voted. the myth of the liberal college student is slowly dying. i attend a private university thats in the top 5 schools in the region. our professors are highly liberal, and we have some noisy college kerry fucks, but the election is showing a close to even split, and alot of the rabid kerry supporters are the bandwagon looking for a place to belong types, and as soon as the election is over their political identity will desolve. We have managed to take over the college news paper. I currently hold VP of the Drake Chapter College Republicans (The same office held by former iowa governer Terry Branstad in 72 or 73, w00t) and my orginization, taking a page of the local gay club, staged a conservative "comming out week."
we had hundreds of young republicans marching around campus in "not fonda/kerry" shirts and such. we made sure they all voted early, and held other awareness events. We had a veiwing of "celcius 41.44" that packed a full sized movie theater, and a road trip to see Ann Coulter at Iowa State.
Thier IS hope for the future.