Bush Legacy Tour

COLUMBUS, ANN ARBOR, TOLEDO-There is no bigger college rivalry than the Ohio State University/ University of Michigan rivalry. We visited rival campuses this week with the Bush Legacy Bus. Wednesday we visited the Buckeyes at OSU in Columbus and Friday the Michigan Wolverines. In both stops we had great locations, right in the middle of campus. 

Our OSU location next to Wexner Plaza brought out many students to the bus. It had been a busy week for Columbus with numerous campaign events happening every day. The students at OSU are no strangers to buses parked on campus holding events. There have been several in the last couple weeks alone, including the CNN bus, as I was told by one student.  The response to the bus was mostly positive. One student summed up the under-25 crowd’s response to the bus perfectly, “This administration is wack!”

We received a similar response from the students at University of Michigan. They were geared up for the big game against Michigan State that evening, but we still managed to lure a good number of students on board at our stop on State Street. Pumped-up Blue fans were not the only thing that brought us to Ann Arbor, though. Representative Joe Knollenberg serves the 9^th Congressional district of Michigan and was part of the reason we came to town. He has been a steadfast supporter of Bush’s policies. He voted with the President’s policies 93% of the time! Now that deserves a “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”

After completing the OSU/ U of M rivalry leg of our tour we moved on to another college campus. Friday afternoon we pulled into The University of Toledo. We were met with pouring rain that continued throughout the entire event. To our surprise, we still had a steady stream of students that came out to check out the bus.