President Barack Obama's national campaign team visited North Carolina Central University in Durham Tuesday night to register voters and recruit volunteers.
In 2008, the President won the state by 14,000 votes and the campaign says a lot of the victory had to do with registering nearly 200,000 new voters, mostly college students.
"Now we're four years later and we've got to have a repeat performance," said Congressman G.K. Butterfield, (D) NC. "In order for President Obama to have a decisive victory again, we've got to register 100,000 voters in this election."
The President's re-election is a family affair for the Butterfields. The Congressman's daughter, Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, is the Obama campaign's National Youth Vote Director.
"It is so important to us for young people to have a seat at the table, to give input as we build out the campaign," said Butterfield-Jones.
During Tuesday night's student summit, questions ranged from affordable health care, to internships to ending poverty.
"The summit really starts the conversation," said NCCU Senior Mea Foster. "I think it really did get the fire going."
The campaign's chant of "Fired up!" and "Ready to go!" echoed in Duke Auditorium on campus along with the university's drum corp, cheerleaders, and dance squad.
This event kicks off a voter registration and volunteer recruitment effort around the country's historically black colleges and universities.
Twenty-eight more events are in the works on other college campuses.
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