Were the students influenced to vote DemocRAT by his talk? Puhleese! I rather doubt that many were. BYU is a stronghold of conservatism, regardless of Reid speaking there. By the way, he claimed he wasn’t going to talk about politics, but then he slipped into the usual, slime the Pubbies, RAT rants.
Even when trying not to talk religion in a 'political' thread here on FR, somehow it appears and then the usual accusations begin: the non-LDS churches are incomplete and fail to have the fullness of the Gospel and they did bad things in the past.