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Keystone State Students Won't Boost Obama

Posted Apr 6, 08 5:46 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – College kids' love for Barack Obama won't help him in the Keystone State, Politico reports. Many of Pennsylvania's 680,000 students hail from elsewhere and have voted absentee; among natives, a high number are Independent and therefore barred from the April 22 primary. Worse, attempts by Obama backers to enroll student voters may have come too late.

Students for Barack Obama claims chapters on 70 Pennsylvania campuses, but began its voting drive in late February. It enrolled more than 5,000 new voters, which one analyst says will not make a dent. If half of state Democrats vote, “two million people vote and Obama registered (at most) 10,000," she said. "You can do the math."

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Young Obama student volunteers assist University of Pennsylvania worker Dave Munson, 45, as he fills out a voter registration form on University of Pennsylvania campus, March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
University of Scranton student Alyssa Beasley, 20, poses at the campus, Tuesday, March 18, 2008, in Scranton, Pa. Beasley changed her driver's license from NJ to Pa. so she could vote in Pa.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks during a town hall meeting at Strath Haven High School in Wallingford, Pa., Wednesday, April 2, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Bryn Mawr College student Mia Prensky, 21, of Harrisburg, Pa., talks about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at a coffee shop on the campus, Thursday, March 20, in Bryn Mawr, Pa.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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