#campaigns


Printable Political Halloween Masks

In cel­e­bra­tion of Hal­loween, You the Designer and UPrinting.com have cre­ated 4 polit­i­cal masks just in time for Fri­day night fun! These fun polit­i­cal mask designs can be eas­ily printed and cut out so you can sup­port or make fun of your favorite polit­i­cal star!

Here’s a pre­view:

Click on the candidate’s name below to down­load the PDF version:

Enjoy!

Source via You the Designer.

Hollywood Says Don’t Vote

With the count­down to prob­a­bly one of the biggest choices Amer­i­cans are going face in the years to come, the Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions will be here in no time. In an effort to get the word out for peo­ple to vote for their future, Declare Your­self1 part­nered up with some of Hollywood’s stars to get the mes­sage across. In this case, they did well using “reverse psy­chol­ogy”:

A cou­ple of bits that stood out for me are the ones from Jonah Hill and Sarah Sil­ver­man. Com­edy is com­edy. It’s just bound to get laughs but at the same time, tell the truth. “Truth in jest” right?

Any­ways, GO VOTE! Not only does it give your thoughts more weight when debat­ing things rang­ing from the Econ­omy to Global Warm­ing, but it also allows you to say “YES” when asked in the mid­dle of the debate, “did you vote?”

A cou­ple of ways to reg­is­ter online:

Voter reg­is­tra­tion dead­lines begin this upcom­ing Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 4th. Go do it now before its too late. It’ll only take a cou­ple of min­utes to reg­is­ter. Remem­ber, don’t com­plain if you can’t even exer­cise your right to vote. I hope that helps.

Update
Only a cou­ple more days till Novem­ber 4th, Declare Your­self pro­duced part 2 of the campaign:

  1. Declare Your­self is the national non­par­ti­san, non­profit voter ini­tia­tive aimed at reg­is­ter­ing America’s 18-year-olds to vote in the 2008 pri­maries and gen­eral elec­tion. DeclareYourself.com is your place for news and infor­ma­tion about the can­di­dates and issues, answers to your ques­tions about reg­is­ter­ing and vot­ing, and an easy-to-use online reg­is­tra­tion tool. Declare Your­self will give mil­lions of first-time vot­ers an active voice in their democ­racy & prove that they are a force to be reck­oned with.
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Declare Yourself Public Service Announcements

Declare Your­self teamed up with pho­tog­ra­phers Mark Lid­dell and David LaChapelle along with Jes­sica Alba, Christina Aguil­era, Jonathan Ben­nett, LaToya Lon­don and Andre 3000 to bring some PSAs to get peo­ple to vote this upcom­ing November’s Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions.

Mean­while, if I may say, the cam­paign also has a great tagline: “Only you can silence your­self.” Awe­some. These are great.

Obama iPhone and iPod Touch App

Woah. As if hav­ing the cre­ative likes of Obey Giant (Shep­ard Fairey), ISO50 (Scott Hansen), and Sarah Sil­ver­man weren’t enough, a cou­ple of iPhoneDe­v­Camp alumni vol­un­teered to cre­ate an iPhone and iPod Touch appli­ca­tion for Barack Obama.

You’ll have instant access to Barack’s posi­tions on impor­tant issues, as well as local and national cam­paign news as it hap­pens. Pho­tos and videos from the cam­paign trail are all here, too.

  • Call Friends: A great vol­un­teer­ing tool that lets you make a dif­fer­ence any time you want by talk­ing to peo­ple you already know. Your con­tacts are pri­or­i­tized by key bat­tle­ground states, and you can make calls and orga­nize results all in one place.
  • Call Stats: See nation­wide Obama ’08 Call Friends totals and find out how your call totals com­pare to lead­ing callers.
  • Get Involved: Do more. Find and con­tact your local Obama for Amer­ica HQ.
  • Receive Updates: Receive the lat­est news and announce­ments via text mes­sages or email.
  • News: Browse com­plete cov­er­age of national and local cam­paign news.
  • Local Events: Find local events, share by email and get maps and directions.
  • Media: Browse videos and pho­tos from the campaign
  • Issues: Get clear facts about Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s plan for essen­tial issues fac­ing Americans.

I won­der how the McCain camp will fol­low up on this. For some rea­son, every time I asso­ciate John McCain and the web, I seem to refer to Mike David­son pun­ish­ing McCain’s web team for hot link­ing images on John McCain’s MySpace page. Clas­sic.

Any­ways, enough of the rem­i­nisc­ing. I com­mend the iPhoneDe­v­Camp alumni amongst the other 4 who vol­un­teered their time to the project. It truly gives some boost and good press to the iPhone devel­op­ment plat­form and its every­day appli­ca­tion; whether it be check­ing your health, to learn­ing why to vote for a pres­i­den­tial candidate.

The app is avail­able at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone

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