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In N.H., Perry stumbles on legal voting age

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 29, 2011

Falling in the polls, Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry can’t afford to discount all voters between 18 and 21 years old. But that’s what he seemed to do in a speech today at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Perry said, “Those of you that will be 21 by November the 12th, I ask for your support and your vote. Those of you who won’t be, work hard.” The legal voting age is 18, not 21. The date of the 2012 general election is Nov. 6.

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