Students at Yale University and from more than 30 other colleges around the country have banded together in a grassroots effort to draft Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels for president.
Yale student Max Eden, the group’s national director, told The Daily Caller the movement has raised enough money to air a television ad at least once in both New Hampshire and Iowa, the key early indicator states for presidential candidates. The pro-Daniels ad features Yale student Courtney Punnell talking about how great President Barack Obama’s policies sounded before she got the bill for them.
Punnell references the “Cash for Clunkers” program and Obamacare, saying, “Everything was perfect until I got my credit card bill. Turns out, he was spending all of my money.”
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Eden, who voted for Obama in 2008, said the reason he’s behind Daniels is because the Indiana governor isn’t out there seeking fame or name-recognition and that he believes Daniels favors fiscally conservative policies and “offers thoughtful and reasoned criticisms, not hyperbole.” Eden said he thinks young voters are starting to come to their senses with the implications of what Obama’s policies mean for the country.
“Most people I talked to about it [the last election], told me they didn’t quite know what they were voting for with Obama,” Eden said in a phone interview. “I can’t speak very well for people across the country, but most of the friends I’ve talked to have, if not become completed disaffected with Obama’s policies, want him to talk more about the debt.”
Eden said Daniels e-mailed him thanking him for his efforts, but has yet to decide on a presidential bid in 2012.