Trouble is, it took place three hours after the voter registration deadline.
In its essence, the idea of the Republican Party reaching out to Generation X voters is not as ludicrous as it sounds. And so there seemed reason to believe that an aggressive GOP voter-outreach effort might, at the least, force the Democrats to proffer a semblance of interest in youth issues. I should have known better. Two were handling the music, which, though I couldn't quite place it, had a distinctly Reaganesque, mid-'80s beat. She rattled off statistics that showed the Republicans had set records for spending on Head Start, college loan programs and everything in between.