"Silence the Vote"

I saw a commercial campaign for Voting 2008. I thought that it was an interesting, because there were about 20 celebrities using reverse psychology to make age groups 18-24 more susceptible to voting. People such as Halle Berry,Leonardo DeCaprio, Jennifer Anniston, Jessica Alba, Seth Rogen, and Sarah Silverman. The celebrities used their fame to get to young adults to go out and cast their ballot on November 4. The whole campaign was using reverse psychology by telling people to "not vote". Since people seem to think that young adults ages 18-24 do exactly the opposite of what you want them to do, this campaign was targeting that exactly. All of the celebrities were filmed saying "do not vote". They were saying phrases such as "don't worry about your economy, because your children will suffer", and "do not vote because your age needs to be silenced". I thought that this was a great campaign, and they had so many big name celebrities to back it up. They make voting seem "cool" even though all of those celebrities probably will not even vote themselves! Either way I think that everyone should take a look at this website because if nothing else, it is funny to watch.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtHwWReGU0