One month into the school year, the College Republicans at the University of Virginia are already seeing record gains.

Obama won Virginia in 2008 but he’s not going to win there in 2012 if these young people have anything to do with it.

Peter Finocchio of The Virginia Advocate reports.

College Republicans at UVA Hit the Ground Running

The College Republicans at UVA have had a record start this year. The information session in Ern Commons just a few weeks ago had over one hundred new people present. The College Republican mailing list has exploded this semester with hundreds of new people, many of them being returning students who only now in the midst of a heated presidential election year see the importance of taking off their masks of political silence and entrenching themselves in political activism.

Every Wednesday night the College Republicans at UVA participate in “Young Americans for Romney” night at the local GOP Headquarters just a few minutes down Route 29 in Albemarle Square. The College Republicans have a second major call night every Thursday, for those- like myself- whose class schedule precludes a Wednesday evening full of pleasant phone conversations with Virginia voters.

For the last two weeks, Republican Wahoos led the Commonwealth in volunteer calls at Virginia GOP Victory Offices, placing second only to the official Romney Virginia headquarters in Northern Virginia. This means that UVA’s College Republicans have dwarfed every chapter in Virginia when it comes to conservative college activism.