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Viral voting videos -- McLovin' it

07:28 PM PT, Jan 31 2008

Ed Helms and Chris Mintz-Plasse -- that's McLovin to you! -- toss around a baseball in this new-school voting PSA from Declare Yourself, the GoTV organization started in 2003 by TV titan and Norman Lear. Not a bad idea, draft viral video into the make-voting-cool mission that MTV pioneered. And it's well done! Declare Yourself has revved up its '08 campaign, stoked by celeb-studded viral videos aimed at making voting cool (or at least, funny).  There's a phony telenovela starring Rosario Dawson and Wilmer Valderrama (two parts), in which Dawson's steamy Latina ingenue ends her brief engagement with Valderrama's Don Juan when she learns he's not registered to vote. There's also a cute-in-a-boring-way video document of Hayden Panetierre signing up to vote when she turned 18. 

(Video courtesy of Funny or Die)

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Jack ( Search Engine Ranking )

Funny Video, good stuff. Maybe this will help the younger generations get out there in record numbers.

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