Voting is cool

Russell Simmons says VOTE!
Drew Barrymore says VOTE!
Lenny Kravitz says VOTE!

Vote kids, it's super cool! Vote for one of the guys who will send you off to die in Vietnam (oops, I mean Iraq).

Voting is cool! MTV is telling me to vote, so I'd better do so, even though I've been watching "Real World" reruns and P. Diddy videos all day, and have no freakin' clue what the, um, candidators stand for. I think I'll vote for that orange-skinned dude with the long face, he seems pretty cool. I saw him windsurfing the other week. I like windsurfing, too.

Voting is cool! Good Charlotte is voting for Kerry, and they're cool, so I guess I'll vote for him as well.

Damn, voting is cool! Some fat dude in a baseball cap even gave me free underwear for registering to vote.

Hey, is underwear supposed to have brown stains in the back?

Oh, and did I mention voting is cool?

 

Well like P. Diddy said, Vote or Die!

 

The people and organizations that i'm assuming you are mocking also advised young people to educate themselves on the issues.

If I had the kind of influence that they do I might use it just as constructively.

 

hahaha...I hate MTV...they're slogan is "Vote for SOMETHING" something, anything at all! I don't think I even need to explain how and why that is idiotic.

 

They're not encouraging them to become educated on issues. They're only encouraging them to vote, for anything.

 

our fake mtv (much music) does a pretty good job covering our last election even covering that night with the latest stats from the night and hosting the leadres of two parties at times...

 

I know, it is so stupid to encourage people to vote...

What do you want them to do, tell people who to vote for?

They have interviews and specials about the candidates occasionaly, so their viewers can learn a bit about them. They aren't encouraging people to stay uninformed.

Sheesh, I can think of way worse things for a network to do...

 

Oh man, voting isn't just cool, it's like, X-TREME! It's so like, awesome, like.

 

Some Bush groups are offering a keg party to young people who vote for Bush. I'm sure these tactics are going on in both parties.

 

haha. X-TREME VOTING!!! VOTE TO THE MAX!!!

 

I don't want them to tell them who to vote for, but I think it would be better than saying, "it doesn't really matter who or what you vote for just as long as you do." If people don't know what they want to vote for, they shouldn't.

 

I don't watch T.V., but I think it's good that people are encouraged to vote. Less than half of Americans vote I think. That is pathetic and not a democracy. You want your 3rd party candidates to have a voice, why don't they try to appeal to those who sit at home on Nov. 2nd?
And seriously, I don't know anyone who is voting without knowing the issues and the candidates. That would be absurd.

 

In Australia if you don't vote you get fined. I think it should be the same here.

 

I don't know about that Sera. If it's forced, it's not freedom.

 

ZSHOO WILL VOTE OR ZSHOO VILL PAY!!!

 

Well I just think that america is a sad representation of democracy when under half the population votes. Plus, everyone sure likes to complain about the president, but half of us wont get off our asses and to the booths.

 

Oh please, you think they don't TRY to get out there and get people to vote?? Hello! They aren't even allowed to debate with the dems and repubs. Not ALLOWED. And they don't get their money from corporations and such like the dems and repubs either, so they don't have all the money the others have to get tv ads. I mean, Nader has the most for his campaign, and as we've seen on here and read other places, the repubs are actually donating to his campaign! lol I mean, do you not realize this? Basically all they have is their websites and the campaigning they get out and do at as many places as they can.

And this is a laugh to. You may not know people like this, but there are plenty out there, I know some, who will be voting, and have voted many times in the past, soley on the way a candidate looks or speaks, etc. "Ooh, he's so handsome, I'm voting for him!" I heard this so much back when Clinton first ran. I remember these older women around me saying things like that. And they weren't just joking around, they were serious. Because these women, as I know now, were republicans, they just thought he was hot. It happens! Some people just vote for who they like the looks of, seriously. Yeah it's completely ignorant and uninformed, but there are some seriously stupid people out there who find that the whole paying attention to issues and the campaign before the election would just take up too much of their precious time, so they just don't bother.

 

Indeed. I don't know, I hate it really, but I kinda agree that maybe we should issue fines for those who don't vote...ugh, sad that we'd even have to think about it.

 

a quick way to get rid of the defecit...well kind of quick I guess.

 

How about giving people more incentives to vote?

Or making Nov.2 a national holiday so you don't have to choose between working and voting?