Keystone State Students Won't Boost Obama

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." (More Barack Obama stories.)