@Jeff – I dont know how you can say this video doesn’t have a clear message…

The advert is obviously targetting citizens that have not voted yet…

-The first part portrays the views of people that haven’t voted yet; people with an “I’ll do it tomorrow” attitude or others that don’t think it’s worthy of their time and effort.

-The second part states the reasons why it is so crucial to vote. Welfare, Minimum Wage, Education, Economy, War…

-The third is about hammering home the need to REGISTER to vote and also the need to do it by a CERTAIN DATE…

-The final part gives the viewer an action plan to spread the knowledge they’ve just acquired… Send the video to 5 friends…

Plus the likes of Jonah Hill and the Bra removing, Herpes quoting Lady, make it really memorable…

It is often difficult to produce SMM/Viral Campaigns that are this powerful and have a clear structure/message… Sooper!

http://www.youtube.com/user/cpcpcc

Half the ads there are negative.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NDPCanada

Most of the videos here are negative (so’s the comment in the top left).

http://www.youtube.com/liberalvideo

Notice the ties to Bush. Canadians hate the guy, and the Liberals play off it.

http://www.bushharper.com

….nuff zed here.

American politicians, as nasty as they can get, have got nothing on the overall negativity of Canadian politicians.

It seemed to me that they just took every opportunity to have a pop at each other – all very childish.

On one hand you’ve got a man who at 72 years old is struggling to stay on his feet and using CDC figures isn’t going to see out two terms and on the other hand you’ve got a man who is relatively unknown and it doesn’t really matter who gets in because they cant really fail.

The funny thing is, whoever does get in – even if he does a fantastic job – is going to have to leave at right about the time when he probably could have started to make a difference.

Why doesn’t the USA do it like that? Why would you have to register first? The government knows about all of you, don’t they? Just simply mailing a paper that says where and when shouldn’t be that difficult. And it will increase the number of votes big time.

I can’t speak for the States, but here in Canada all they do is mail you a card telling you where and when you can vote. You take the card in, present a major form of ID (driver’s license), then they move you to a second line where you have to wait 10 minutes and then vote. There may have been a registration required at some point, but it’s been so long since I’ve had to do anything other than (as my landlady puts it) “censors” that it may have since been removed.

This doesn’t lead to higher voter turnout, however. Only 52.8% of people voted in the last Ontario provincial election, and I don’t expect the number to be very different for the upcoming federal election. People just don’t care, and there’s not a lot of reason for them to care. The choices are almost identical, the system used to determine seats in Parliament is archaic, and there isn’t a sense of leadership or original thinking among the parties.

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Jeff Said,

October 3, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

How can you say this video is good and has a clear message?

First they tell us not to vote then they tell us to vote – what the hell – why confuse people?

I’m glad I don’t live in America

That’s a cultural thing Jeff,

Americans will understand it the way it was intended. I’m sure in your country there are things that foreigners don’t understand and only make sense in your culture.

It’s actually pretty impressive in my opinion since the whole country votes digitally and they manage to get to everybody, including people that live in the amazon florest, no matter how deep in the florest. They’ll go on boats with the voting machines and visit everybody. Considering Brazil is a developping country, it is impressive that they have all the votes counted within 24 hours.

In my native country (the Netherlands) usually 60 to 70% of the people do vote, even though it’s not oblied. But you don’t have to register in order to vote. Everybody receives at home a paper that says where they can vote.

Why doesn’t the USA do it like that? Why would you have to register first? The government knows about all of you, don’t they? Just simply mailing a paper that says where and when shouldn’t be that difficult. And it will increase the number of votes big time.

Don’t we teach people that in order to get people to buy more in a website, having to register first doesn’t really help your conversion rates.

sorry matt but this is very “american”

ice caps are melting .. global warming … forbidding people to vote … abortion … war on drugs … nobodies listening to you … health care

the thing is, nothing is going to change. the ice caps will keep melting, none of thee politicians will actually listen to anyone or do anything unless there is something in it for them ..

no doubt the video will be forwarded and no doubt people will watch it, because of the people in it .. but most people know nothing is going to change – despite all the promises ..

The video has a context. The “not vote” parts are sarcastic.