With Iowa’s first-in-the nation presidential caucuses less than five months away, some UW-Madison students are already hoping to spread their Obamania to the neighboring Hawkeye State.
Even before classes start, the campus chapter of Students for Obama has begun recruiting volunteers from Madison to contact their peers in Iowa in support of Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential bid in the critical Jan. 14 vote. The Obama group is the first to begin organizing for next year’s presidential race; typically, the UW has been a major source of votes for Democratic candidates.