500 Students to Spend Christmas With Ron Paul

Some 500 college students will campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire over the holidays as part of “Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul.” The students will head door-to-door and make phone calls for the Texas congressman, the Houston Chronicle reports. “I firmly believe the next generation needs us to fix our problems now, so there will be a great country left to give them,” Paul told young supporters in an email.

Paul has no shortage of youth backing: Colleges nationwide have “Youth for Ron Paul” chapters, including one at Cornell with some 1,370 members. Paul’s campaign expects the operation to cost about $600,000—$45 per young campaigner—and he’s hoping supporters nationwide will help defray that cost. “Although this program is very cost-effective, it still costs money. And that is something our campaign will need much, much more of in the coming weeks,” he says.