Democratic college students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus say there will be a strong turnout for Russ Feingold, Tom Barrett and other Democrats. Student volunteers worked the phones on Wednesday inside a food court on campus to line up volunteers to campaign over the weekend. “It?s really up to us to prove there isn?t the enthusiasm gap,” said 21-year-old senior Paula Uniacke of Green Bay. Many students haven?t focused on the election until recently, said Evan Giesemann, the head of the College Democrats at UW-Madison. But President Barack Obama?s visit in late September that attracted 27,000 people, many of them students, was a turning point, Giesemann said.
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