New Obama Hip Hop Vid
A new group Eklectyk Creative Media with Napalm Clique has produced an Obama hiphop video/mashup posted on youtube this week.
The video begins with an excerpt from Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech, and launches into a multimedia collection of the political candidate. It has strong video-editing and lots of creativity behind it. video have truly raised the bar for independent Hip Hop artists. In this production, real Hip Hop is used as a vehicle to inspire youth to vote and become involved in national politics.
According to the release "the director of the video is at the Democratic Convention to spread the word about his project."
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2008 Youth Electoral Map

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Mobilize the (Youth) Vote
I was reading through your blog and since one of your subjects dealt with politics and the power of the youth vote, you might be interested to view or maybe even post this video on your blog.
As it is, more and more of America's youths are becoming apathetic to the whole election process, as well as with politics and governance in general, so hopefully, a video like this might rile them up and tell them to make a stand for their own future. After all, to paraphrase the saying, the future is what they make of it.
You can check out the video on this site: http://www.mobilizethevote2008.com/
As well as on YouTube through this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kg514DcTA
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Interesting video, but I
Interesting video, but I have to point out that you are wrong about youth apathy. All the research and voting results showthat young voters are actually becoming less and less apathetic with each year. Young voter turnout has risen substantially in the past three major election cycles.