Students, liberal group persist in push for seats at Boulder’s Republican debate

It doesn’t hurt to ask — and keep asking. Tuesday the liberal advocacy group ProgressNow Colorado launched the latest volley in the month-long struggle over student tickets to the Republican presidential debate in the University of Colorado’s Coors Event Center, asking for 1,000 seats for students.

Though the way the Republican National Committee and CNBC are handling the Oct 28 event isn’t remarkably different than the way other campus debates in Colorado have been held, CU students are persistent in wanting seats. The clamor might also hurt the GOP brand with some younger voters, as a bonus. CU students involved maintain weekly and sometimes daily e-mail contact with reporters covering the campaign and a Facebook invitation page for Student Voices Count had 1,000 guests (as of Tuesday afternoon) who plan to show up the debate. Almost 3,800 more have been invited by the student group. USA Today ran a story about the student body snub Monday.

Last Friday CU Chancellor Philip DiStefano issued a lengthy treatise.

“I have been impressed with our students’ enthusiasm for and interest in this historic moment,” DiStefano wrote. “Those who say that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic doesn’t care about politics or the future of our country are obviously not talking about CU-Boulder students.”

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