Although there was no coordination between the Obama campaign and the get-out-the-vote efforts undertaken by advocacy groups like Citizen Action of Wisconsin, similarly targeted efforts were under way by the campaign. In fact, they?d never ceased since President Barack Obama was inaugurated nearly four years ago, says Gillian Morris, a campaign spokeswoman. College-age students were ?absolutely? targeted by the Obama camp, she says. Efforts were undertaken to get college students to vote early. Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UW-Madison students, for example, camped out at voting locations the night before Oct. 22, the first day residents could vote early in Wisconsin.
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