Undergrad pastoral at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where Barack Obama will be holding a rally later on this evening.

Here’s Joseph Links, 21, a sophomore studying journalism, relaxing in the grass on the university qaudrangle:

I told him about my experiences talking to Hillary Clinton supporters in Jackson County yesterday—the concern about the flag pin, the pastor, the secret Muslim thing—and asked Links if he thought rural white voters would be a problem for Obama.

“I think it might be hard for him to get the rural vote just because of education in certain areas,” Links said. “But that’s just part of campaigning.”

Does Obama, as Clinton has suggested, have a problem with white voters?

“No, because my dad’s white and he’s middle class and he’s voting for Obama.”

Next to Links was Erika Unruh, 20, a sophomore studying education. She told me her Republican grandmother in Happy Valley, Oregon, is voting for Obama. “She thinks he has a fresh look,” Unruh said.

Does Obama have a problem with white voters?

“I really don’t think it’s going to be that much of an issue… I would like to think we’ve moved beyond that.”

Next, Kelsey Schopp, 20, a sophomore in International Studies. I asked her about Clinton’s recent contention that she’s more viable, in part, because she does better than Obama among “hard working Americans, white Americans.”

“I’ve heard that,” Schopp said. “But she definitely doesn’t have the young vote. Everyone I talk to our age is into Obama.”