Registering Republican-leaning voters is a good way to weaken Obama’s strangehold on the “youth vote.”  In a swing state like Iowa, that could be the critical difference.

The College Republicans at the University of Iowa are on the case as reported in The Daily Iowan:

The University of Iowa College Republicans will set up shop on the Pentacrest every Monday and Tuesday in September as part of a wider push by the College Republican National Committee to increase participation in college communities. The program’s goal is to increase on-campus awareness, recruit new members, and, most importantly, register students to vote.

“We want students to vote in Iowa City because this is a battleground state, and in most cases, they live here nine months out of the year,” said Kelsey Boehm, the head of the UI College Republicans, to The Daily Iowan in August.

This active push to register voters represents a valuable campus service and is a welcome departure from the College Republicans’ typically inflammatory recruitment efforts epitomized by its annual spring event known as “Conservative Coming Out Week.”