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Obama wants you off the couch
BY Matthew Razak Oct. 29th, 2008 More on:

A good sign that a candidate is basically swimming in support money is when he can afford to develop an ad directed specifically at a very niche audience. Take the above commercial for Obama which is clearly directed at gamers and prompts us to get off the couch and go make a difference. People this applies to are not that large a chunk of the population, however, they are the chunk of the population that don’t usually get out and vote, so maybe it needed to be done.

I’m not quite sure I’m too pleased with being called a couch potato by a possible future president of the United States since I know I’m going to extra lengths to make sure I’ll be voting on Nov. 4. On the filp side though the message is sound. There won’t be any change of any sort if people don’t get out and vote. Obama has been running a hard campaign in the videogame world with ads popping up everywhere. Think this will help him increase his lead over McCain as the election nears?

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    1. Dork
      October 29th, 2008
      at 10:59 am

      “Obama hates blac…I mean gamers.”

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      Rockvillian
      October 29th, 2008
      at 11:20 am

      I love games, but if it means people staying home to play them instead of doing something important, I hate games.

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      bhive01
      October 29th, 2008
      at 1:16 pm

      So you can’t vote with the Wii, but can you with the PS3 or 360…? I’m on a need to know basis and I need to know.

      /mail-in ballots rule

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