In early October, two opponents for a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates took turns laying out their political stances in front of a small, intimate crowd.
But this wasn’t a typical town hall. In this case, they were fielding questions from some 60 stone-faced students gathered in the common room of a dormitory on James Madison University’s campus.
The students, seated on a hodgepodge of dorm chairs and couches, drilled them on the usual issues raised by the college-aged voting bloc: gun laws, climate change and rising student debt levels.
