Rock the Vote Campaign

Christopher over at Californian Sojourn had blogged about this a few days ago, regarding blatant statements made by celebrities in attempts to get the word out to vote. He is critical of the way that these people campaign to increase voters (critical of the method, not the idea, of course), because it doesn't address issues directly and frankly, and rather, by using shock value of loud statements, it gets young people voting, but more often than not, blindly. I suppose this is one of the ways that these "Vote or Die" people are connecting to prospective voters. E-mailing, with the title about getting drafted! Now, I would have thought that it was very clever... I mean, you can only do so much to motivate the people. After motivating them to vote, it is up to them to learn the issues at stake and get with the program -- one cannot spoonfeed people about how and who to vote and why.

I, of course, am not eligible to vote. So I'll just stop rambling now...