Is this counter-productive or just the ticket?


Yes, exercise your right to vote, good people of America...

and at the same time ask the question "Why are my voting options rather like choosing between M&M's and Smarties?"

Patrick Crowther | 2 October 2008 - 5:56pm

Of course it's just the ticket...

It's got Sarah Silverman in it.

Fraser Lewry | 2 October 2008 - 6:31pm

Silverman

She's a perfect example of a new female archetype - the flirt with her tongue in her cheek.

David Hepworth | 2 October 2008 - 6:54pm

Well...

It's a bit long, but it's quite persuasive. I hope.

Lucas Hare | 2 October 2008 - 7:30pm

Problem is...

...it's so obviously encouraging people to vote for one particular candidate. If it really was animated by the desire to get people to vote - an entirely laudable objective - it would also feature lots of country singers and, I dunno, football players and servicemen. Gives the impression that it was made by people who are in favour of democracy, just so long as their team wins.

David Hepworth | 2 October 2008 - 7:44pm

Dan Carlin [ Common Sense

Dan Carlin [ Common Sense Podcast 124 ] argues that America needs not more people voting but more thinking people voting , people who actually know why and what their voting for .

Don't necessarily agree with him, but its a well structured witty piece .

Danmac | 2 October 2008 - 10:05pm

Is it?

It actually quite moved me. Sure, sure, so I know and you know it is unlikely that the people concerned are pro-McCain, but it's fair, it's witty and it won't make a scrap of difference to anyone with any degree of limited education or intelligence, or without understanding at a basic level of (english language) literacy or irony.
(So that rules out most of the intended audience of unregisterred?)

Retropath2 | 3 October 2008 - 7:50am

Yes but

If the USA is anything like it is over here, people on the right of the political spectrum are more likely to vote anyway. This has always been so but is even more true now as people have been encouraged by much of our wonderful media to believe that it makes no difference as "they're all the same". The people most affected (for good or ill) by the actions of governments are the ones at the bottom of the social pyramid (in terms of minimum wage, state education, welfare provision etc) and they are the ones least likely to vote.

If videos like this actually get more people to vote, the chances are they'll vote Democrat. The Republicans will vote anyway.

Tony Fry | 3 October 2008 - 12:04pm

Yes

That's true. I'd been so won over by the subliminal message, I hadn't noticed.

Lucas Hare | 2 October 2008 - 8:32pm

Mmmmmm, Halle Berry... Have

Mmmmmm, Halle Berry...

Have I missed the point?

Andy Lynes | 3 October 2008 - 10:43am

Christ allmighty,

Brad looks like he's been up all night changing nappies.

Vulpes Vulpes | 3 October 2008 - 11:38am

Why is Hoffman. . .

the only one who is - or at least looks - over 40? Are young people the only ones who don't vote? Or are the makers only interested in young people because they think they're more likely to vote for the younger, cooler candidate?

And why do they talk only about "gay rights" and "abortion rights" rather than what many (most?) Republican voters would no doubt rather talk about: "stopping gays from getting married and adopting childten" and "making abortion illegal"?

It's cute, yes, but who paid for it? Surely it's not part of a federal, publicly funded campaign.

Archie Valparaiso | 3 October 2008 - 12:55pm

Erm...

Because it's the young people who aren't registering to vote? At a guess...

David Ellcock | 5 October 2008 - 9:25pm

I can't wait to see kerry

I can't wait to see kerry Katona on the Uk version

Mat Riches | 3 October 2008 - 2:50pm

Its all going to be rigged again......

Well according to Homer anyway.....


chrisf | 3 October 2008 - 4:57pm