Gov. Patrick's shilling for Sen. Obama continues.

Gov. Deval Patrick and actor Kal Penn of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle fame stumped around the Boston University campus yesterday, hoping to drum up youth support for presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

Patrick urged more than 100 Obama campaign volunteers to spread the word about his presidential pick at a phone-banking training session last night at Morse Auditorium, while Penn's afternoon stop at BU Central drew more than 150 students to a question-and-answer session.

"It will work and succeed only if you make it personal," Patrick said. "If you, when you're making those calls, tell them your own stories about why this is the right man for right now . . . then Sen. Obama wins in Massachusetts."

Patrick's training session marked the start of a five-day "Get Out the Vote" drive, during which volunteers plan to call, canvas and knock on doors in hopes of racking up votes for Obama, Patrick committee field consultant Eli Forsythe said.

"[Volunteers] are the ones that have the voter-to-voter contact that's so important, and the governor is the embodiment of how that is successful," Patrick's spokesman Steve Crawford said.

Patrick, who publicly endorsed Obama in October, told volunteers that although Obama's campaign faces an "uphill battle in Massachusetts," he believes Obama is the best candidate for president.

UPDATE: More from the Herald, Globe, Red Mass Group and Scott Allen Miller.