Colorado State University economics professor Ronnie Phillips said he doesn’t think that argument has merit.

CSU played host to both Kevin Costner and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday, with both men urging students to early vote rather than wait for Election Day.

Envirofit, a Fort Collins company with roots at CSU, has sold 15,000 stoves in four months in India, its first country of market production.

Sen. Barack Obama ignited a crowd estimated between 45,000 to 50,000 on the Colorado State University Oval Sunday with his familiar theme of change.

Another enormous swarm — an estimated 45,000 to 50,000 — greeted him in Fort Collins later on the Colorado State University lawn.

Sen. Barack Obama was near the end of his well-worn stump speech at Colorado State University on Sunday, when he got to one of those lines that always makes his college audiences listen a little more closely.

“Musgrave spent the first months of the campaign … attempting to appear more moderate and distance herself from President Bush,” said Kyle Saunders, a political scientist at Colorado State University.

Nine days before the Nov. 4 election in a state considered crucial to both parties, the hordes of devoted, sunglasses-wearing spectators at Civic Center and at Colorado State University provided a stunning statement of Obama’s drawing power.

“It’s easy, it’s fun,” Obama joked during a rally at Colorado State University.

Hours later, at Colorado State University, another 45,000 turned out to see him.