Will Bieber Fever Fire Up Young Voters?
Sure, most Justin Bieber fans are too young to vote, but as savvy and texted-in as they are, they can move a message faster and further than any group. Rumor has it Twitter has its own “Bieber fever” server to handle the traffic for the teen mega-idol.
The folks at Campus Progress hope a new video will leverage that fever to move young people old enough to vote to the polls and get the under-18 Bieberites to tell their older friends, family members and Facebookers to vote. It also hopes to encourage them to learn about the issues.
The group, the college arm of the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), submitted the video to the Vote Again 2010 get-out-the-vote video contest. Campus Progress’ Sara Haile-Mariam told Politico:
Most of his fans are 12 years old—we acknowledge that….The hope is to create something that goes viral and gets young people to be aware of the election.
Rockefeller’s Public Option Killed in Senate Finance’s Health Care Bill
UPDATE: Schumer’s public option amendment got killed as well, 10-13, with Baucus, Conrad and Lincoln voting against it. Disgrace.
Looks like one version of public option just got killed in the Senate Finance Committee. Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s public option amendment, the strongest of the public option amendments offered, was just voted down 15-8, with five Democrats voting against it: Sens. Max Baucus (Mont.), Tom Carper (Del.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Bill Nelson (Fla.).
As Rockefeller said before the vote:
Why would we not do this? People come second and the profits come first if we’re against this.
