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[catslash]

SO YOU GUYS. Tomorrow we get to do the ONLY thing that makes me feel like a citizen of the United States, as opposed to someone who happened to be born here. I shall not waste your pixels exhorting you to vote, because as far as I can tell, I am not friends with people who don't vote. I assume that the only people on my friendslist who are not voting tomorrow (or who have not already voted absentee) are the people who live in other countries, and I consider that to be an acceptable excuse. If, for some reason, I am incorrect, and you do live in the States and have no intention of voting, then you should feel LAME. I have voted every year since I turned eighteen. Now you should feel LAMER.

Also, my school has given us the entire day off. Voting is important to USM, and they are not going to be the excuse for why any of us students didn't do it! I love it. For the first time, I don't have to squeeze voting in around something else. In 2004, I had to leave work to be able to do it. Tomorrow, I'll just wander across the street (my polling place is across the street! How cool is THAT?) and probably stand in line and have a VOTING LINE PARTY and then vote. And then spend the rest of the day going "AUGH SUSPENSE" but. One thing at a time.

In conclusion, I bring you geeky YouTube. I'm sure every interested party has already seen this video, which is the Obama campaign "performing" "One Day More" from Les Mis, but it is stamped with today's date in the beginning, so the timing is finally correct. So I'm posting it anyway.

Comments

[cacopheny.livejournal.com]

:: cracking the hell up at the video :: is that real? XD are those really the Obama campaign lip-syncing to that? XD

... the John McCain/Palin impostors are the BEST man XD though I'm a little insulted at equating McCain with my beloved Javert >.>

I have never voted, but I plan to vote tomorrow. Does that makes up for my epic fail? XD I've never felt informed enough until this year ^^'

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Okay, NOW every interested party has seen it. XD

Yes, it is. I have a friend with lots of campaigning experience who assures us that, yes, eventually everyone cracks and starts doing crazy shit like creating elaborate videos to songs from musicals.

I totally did not get the McCain/Palin reference the first time I watched it, since it was pre-Les Mis for me so I was busy going, "Hey, that's Philip Quast singing . . . you know, I have the one with him downloaded, I should get on watching that." And then I did. and EVERYTHING EXPLODED. And now, weeks later, I know enough to know that they probably chose the worst of the four English recordings available for this, but I can't really fault them for it because it's probably also the clearest in terms of being able to hear most of the words. Uh. But anyway.

It's a start! The next step is to keep voting every year. :D

[harleymae.livejournal.com]

You left out the people who live in the US and are not citizens. :P

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Damn, and here I thought I'd gotten everyone! XD

[tijmetje.livejournal.com]

Cool that you get the day off. I don't remember my uni doing anything like that, but around here voting places are open from, like, 7.30 to 21.00 or whatever and you can vote at whatever vaguely public building turned voting shack you happen to be near provided you bring that little card.

But yeah, not voting.