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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky greets supporters Tuesday at Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston. Paul Zoeller/Staff

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky looked more like an Apple executive than a potential GOP candidate for president during his stump appearance at the College of Charleston.

He wore cowboy boots, jeans and a tie but no jacket. He said the Republican Party has been way off in its methods for trying to grow its ranks and should instead diversify by welcoming more people of color - and even men who wear their hair in ponytails or have pierced ears. Also, anybody inked with tattoos.

"You need to look like the rest of America," he said.

In an address designed to appeal to South Carolina's youth vote, Paul spoke for nearly an hour Tuesday about where the world is heading and how their generation, more than any previous one, will face the potential dangers of electronic overreach.

"When you talk to young people, their whole life revolves around their phone and I think they instinctively know that the government shouldn't be looking at their stuff without the permission of a judge," he said.

He also said the attitude that "if you're not doing anything wrong then you shouldn't fear the government" could too easily become the basis of society accepting privacy intrusion as a future norm.

"That's a little bit of a lower standard than 'innocent until proven guilty,'" he told more than 200 students on the campus on protecting their data.

Paul's appearance was part of an increased emphasis on attracting younger voters as he sets up a potential run for the White House in 2016. The youth vote is something he acknowledged that Republicans have historically failed at cultivating.

"When you look at President Obama's victory, he won the youth vote 3-to-1, and he increased the youth vote," Paul said. He added "if you get the youth vote, you've got quite a bit" of the electorate.

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By Meg Kinnard The Associated Press September 30, 2014

WASHINGTON

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is working to improve the Republican Party's image among young voters as he visits South Carolina, a key state in the presidential primary calendar.

The tea party favorite, who hopes to strengthen his national network ahead of a likely White House bid, says the GOP has a big opportunity to attract more young voters a group that fueled President Barack Obama's success and could prove critical to Hillary Rodham Clinton should she seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Polls suggest Obama's standing with younger voters has slipped significantly in recent months.

"Young people aren't so wedded to party," Paul, 51, said in an interview with The Associated Press before his South Carolina swing. "The kids are probably adrift somewhat. And I don't think someone who is an authoritarian, or comes from a much more authoritarian point of view like Hillary Clinton, will attract them."

On Tuesday during an event at the University of South Carolina, Paul took on Clinton directly, saying that, as secretary of state, she mishandled the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, ignoring requests for more security.

"She had her national security challenge, and the phone just kept on ringing," Paul said, referencing Clinton's 2008 television ad in which an announcer says a phone is ringing in the White House and asks, "It's 3 a.m. and your children are safely asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?"

While the next presidential primary season won't begin in earnest until next year, Paul already has established himself as among the most active prospective candidates. His South Carolina visit marks his fourth appearance in the state this year, according to his office. But he disputed a recent report that he had decided to seek the presidency as long as his wife agreed.

"There has been no final decision," Paul said, noting that his wife's support is "a big part" of that decision. "But you can tell obviously by my travels and by the people who have come to work for our organization that there is an interest. We're not sitting passively by and doing nothing. We're building a nationwide organization."

Perhaps best known for his libertarian positions on civil liberties and foreign policy, Paul is casting himself as an anti-establishment conservative eager to repair what he called the Republican Party's "tattered" image.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate David Patterson has asked a federal judge to order Kentucky Educational Television to include him in the station's televised debate on Oct. 13.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes have both said they will participate in the debate. It will likely be the only time voters will see the two debate on statewide television before the Nov. 4 election.

Patterson, who is a police officer in Harrodsburg, is also on the ballot but was not invited to the debate. His lawsuit alleges KET officials are excluding him from the debate because of his political views something the U.S. Supreme Court has said public broadcasters cannot do.

A call to a KET spokesman was not immediately returned.

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