While his father remains studiously neutral about endorsing any of the Democratic presidential candidates, Gus Doyle -- Gov. Jim Doyle's oldest son -- is set to endorse U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at a campus campaign event tonight.
It's the first time that Gus Doyle, who with his brother, Gabe, figured prominently in several of the Democratic governor's TV ads last year, has publicly endorsed any candidate other than his father.
"I trust him," Doyle, 32, said of Obama, whom he met during one of the Illinois senator's campaign trips to Wisconsin last year. "When you have the opportunity to hear him speak, he's very forceful. You get the sense that it's not the same-old, same-old."
Doyle will be the keynote speaker tonight at the first meeting of the Students for Obama on the UW Madison campus. The meeting will be held in Room 1100 Grainger Hall beginning at 6 p.m.
Doyle says Obama's appeal to young people is evident.
Young people "want a change. They days of status quo politics are behind us, and you can see that desire for change in the volunteers and the sheer volume of people getting involved in this campaign."
Doyle is one of the highest-profile Wisconsin Democrats to back Obama, who has also been endorsed by U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore of Milwaukee.
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