CNN news 2012-08-31 加文本

cnn news 2012-08-31

First up, we are talking about the first full day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Tuesday kicked off with some official business including the roll call of delegates. Now, you are familiar with taking roll. This one isn`t about attendance. It`s to show that Mitt Romney has enough support to officially get his party`s nomination, and he`ll be officially nominated tomorrow. Delegates also voted on the party`s platform yesterday, that`s the official Republican position on major political issues. More than 2200 delegates are expected to be in Tampa this week, the youngest one there is the same age as some of you, 17-year old Evan Draim and he talked about his interest in politics and how he got to Tampa.

I consider my interest in politics a result of my family background. My family immigrated to the United States as Hungarian refugees, I think to give me the economic freedom and individual liberty that they lacked in their homeland, and my involvement in politics, and especially the conservative movement, I think is really meant to preserve those values for me and my descendants in years to come. To become a delegate, I got elected by the voters from my district at the district convention in May, I ran a campaign about four months, reaching out to those voters through phone calls and in person appearances, and I really credit my victory to the fact that the Republican Party understands that young voters have been especially impacted by this president`s policies that we really the negative impact of his policies is keeping a lot of students from achieving the opportunities and freedom that their parents achieved as Americans, and they wanted to send a younger representative to Tampa to have a part in finding a solution to those problems.

President Obama, the likely Democratic nominee is out on the campaign trail this week, and making some stops on college campuses. Yesterday, he visited Iowa State and Colorado State, today he is scheduled to be at the University of Virginia. If you go to our home page, cnnstudentnews.com, check out the spotlight section, and click on the link to the cnn election center, that`s where you can keep up with all of the news out of Tampa like last night speeches from Ann Romney and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.