Doyle calls Obama 'unifying candidate'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | January 05, 2008
By Bill Glauber
Gov. Jim Doyle hopped aboard the Barack Obama presidential bandwagon today and endorsed the Illinois senator in the race for the White House.
"I see in Barack Obama an incredibly unifying candidate," Doyle said during a conference call this afternoon.
Doyle wasn't even the first one in his family to back Obama. He said his two sons, Gus, 32, and Gabe, 29, already supported Obama's bid for the Democratic Party nomination. Gus Doyle hosted Obama's visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison late last year.
"We obviously are a family that talks a lot about this," the governor said. "And it's very clear to me they helped me understand how a younger person sees the world. And you can see this in the votes ... when a younger person looks at Barack what they really see is the country moving into the future and the future can be a good one."
