Despite her political affiliation, Head gave credit to the small group of Bush supporters who ran up and down the lines of the protest.
“The Bush people have a lot of guts and balls,” she said.
Boston College Bush supporter Alex Fowler said he came with students from Boston University (BU) and MIT to make the Republican presence felt at the overwhelmingly Democratic event.
The presence of a small but vocal Republican group surprised Dan Hoffer, a junior at BU who runs Students for Kerry.
“I didn’t expect Bush people to show up,” he said.
The organizers of the event screened out Republican participants, according to Mumu Xu ’07, who volunteered as a page in the Rock the Vote pressroom.
“Only Independents and Democrats are allowed to work here. They said they will find out if you’re a Republican and kick you out,” she said.
—Staff writer Jonathan P. Abel can be reached at abel@fas.harvard.edu.