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| Google, DiCaprio urge US to vote |
| 2008-10-01 |
| FILM stars including Forest Whitaker, Leonardo DiCaprio and Dustin Hoffman joined forces with Google in a campaign to get US citizens to vote in the coming presidential election. The celebrities make rapid-fire appearances in a 5 Friends YouTube video that warns people their rights and futures are at stake and implores them to wield power over the outcome by voting. In keeping with the video title, the movie stars urge people to send it to five friends so it spreads, as comedian Sarah Silverman put it, "rampant like herpes but for a positive". "If you're not going to vote I don't even know what to say to you anymore," DiCaprio says after the video turns serious. "You know you have to vote." Check out 5 Friends: Celebrities in the sometimes humorous, sometimes foreboding video direct viewers to www.maps.google.com/vote for geographically-tailored information about voting and voter registration. "There's a lot of buzz about turnout this year, but one in four Americans still aren't registered to vote," Google said on its website, citing US Census data. "Now is the time - voter registration deadlines are less than a week away in most states." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 and no spin either, very cool. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-10-01 23:50 |