Candidates respond to potential voters' questions

Cyberspace is the newest realm of debate for young potential voters to get election questions answered by three presidential candidates.

More than 5,100 questions were submitted to the online debate sponsored by the New Voters Project. President Bush, Sen. John Kerry and Ralph Nader agreed to field 12 of the questions from young voters.

Margaret, 20, of Wisconsin asked the candidates about the drug provision in the Higher Education Act that disqualifies anyone who has previous drug convictions from receiving financial aid. She said minority students and lower class students are unfairly targeted and noted the same rule does not apply to students with rape and murder convictions.

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