TwoVoters Does Youth Outreach

I came across a new website I hadn't seen before today. TwoVoters.com that encourages Obama supporters to send their videos around to friends and family as a means of spreading the message, talking about issues, and encouraging people to vote and register. The homepage opens to a video with a blue screen with text and music that sounds sincere but a little like an after school special.

They have a specific 18-29 year old tab on their home page of videos that takes you here to a welcoming video that addresses the youth vote.

Note: None of these videos you can embed on blogs or other websites and only a few are uploaded to YouTube. But you can upload the videos to your iPod so you can listen to them intensely while running on a tredmil at the gym.

The welcome isn't a bad video, and again, I'm more of a fan of people who do something rather than nothing when it comes to young voters. The video becomes a bit of Debbie Downer when it talks about the fact that only one in four young people voted in the last election and how sad that is. It doesn't mention that among all Americans really only 2 in 4 voted in the last election.

I much prefer positive communication about things like this - our numbers are up - but we can do more - kind of talk. It does reference registering to vote at Rock the Vote's website...

Either way, the videos they include are interesting and target specific groups including gamers, young Clinton supporters, and first time voters all who are remarkably more encouraging, hopeful, and positive than the first "welcoming" video.

Here is the Gamer Video

Its not a new idea to connect with gamers and encourage them to vote and register. Rock the Vote is launching their voter registration widget via XBox.

One video even goes so far to talk about the "senior citizen" who spent money to launch TwoVoters. I'm curious why the senor citizen decided to launch his own project rather than partner with so many existing ones. I would personally like to extend an invitation for him to fund our efforts here at FM...

It isn't a bad idea, but as I said to Mike earlier, there are so many of these kinds of websites now that I'm to the point that I forget if we've talked about them before....