"Only Bill Bradley could wrest my vote away from McCain now," said M. Jacob Ewart '00, who called himself "historically" a Democrat.
But Marc Stad '01, the president of the College Democrats, had no such warm words for McCain.
"Anyone can come up here and say, 'I want to pay teachers more. I want to lower taxes on millions of Americans,'" said Stad, adding that McCain said he was not optimistic about the surplus. "How practical is this?"