OCTOBER 4, 2008 10:15AM

Leo tries to get young people motivated to vote

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 Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSAs include: Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.

 
Very engaging stuff.  It's fun to see the celebrities, and the approach is interesting, "Don't vote", etc.  I just hope folks actually watch the whole thing and get the point.  At the end of the video,  Leo, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Bacon and others actually "wait" while expecting viewers to click over to an excellent Google site that helps register voters.  Clock is ticking away on registration, 10 days to go here in my home state of New Jersey.

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Great post!

I love the involvement of youth this year. Our college students have handed in 3,000 registrations these past two weeks. We have 7,000 more dems than reps in our county now.

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o'stephanie
October 04, 2008 10:31 AM