After the Edwards rally, the journey continued to a panel discussion by the National Review Online about the New Hampshire primaries at the Radisson in downtown Manchester.
Many of the students appeared bored and restless, and they wandered around the Radisson looking for some political action.
Students stumbled upon a closed-door union rally in the next large room, but were denied access because they weren't union members. Unions represented included the Teamsters, the International Bricklayers union and AFSCME.
The star attraction was former President Bill Clinton, who spoke for ten minutes to resounding applause from a capacity crowd about getting out the vote for his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.).
It was odd to see such tremendous support for the man who signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law, since NAFTA was so harshly opposed by the labor movement. But the voters clapped and hollered away anyway.
Host of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews, attributed it to a show of support for the party, as opposed to directly for the candidate. "They are all pro-Democrat," he said.
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