Several hundred protesters faced off with police in riot gear and then held a peaceful sit-in at a gated campus entrance to discuss issues facing the nation, while dozens of others left in frustration over tight controls placed on them during the debate on the idyllic campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Unlike the first debate in Boston last week, which drew hundreds of vocal protesters, tight controls on everything from the type of signs they could carry (paper only) to the contents of purses (no cell phones or hair brushes) frustrated protesters who had obtained permits to demonstrate.