Voting and YOU!

In case you need a good laugh before you can vote--here it is! Thanks to the folks at DeclareYourself.com, who are also keeping the stead and trying to get everyone to vote! Visit their YouTube channel or visit their website for more hilarious clips on getting out the vote!

And remember--VOTE!!!

Headline from DeclareYourself.com:

TRIPLE TURNOUT IN IOWA

The youth turnout in Iowa more than tripled compared to the 2004 caucus from 4% to 13%! Young voters came out to support their candidates and their voices were clearly heard as Senator Obama took the lead for the Democrats and Huckabee for the Republicans.

(Hey America--KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!)

Keeping the Vote

“Voting is a civic sacrament.” -Theodore Hesburgh

While political minds have been focused on Iowa and New Hampshire, it's time for the rest of America to get up and get a plan for voting in your own state's primary. In this day and age, voting in your state party's primary or caucus is as important as voting in the General Election.

If you're not even registered to vote--do it! If you're in the armed services, you can register to vote AND get your absentee ballot here: http://www.fvap.gov/pubs/onlinefpca.pdf. If you're not in the armed services, you can find EVERYTHING you need to know at MTV's Rock the Vote, or at your state's Secretary of State website (google it, lazy!).

It is going to take a considerable effort from the 18-24 year old demographic to effect any sort of change in this year's election, but it is already happening--a HUGE swell in youth voter turnout helped Democratic Senator Barack Obama win the state of Iowa last Thursday. The moral of the story? When you vote, people listen!

Happy New Year!

We hope that everyone had an enjoyable New Year's celebration, and is ready to welcome in 2008. We sure are--the American Leaders Organization is looking forward to an outstanding year.

We already have many great things planned. "Operation: Vote!" is already underway at the US Naval Academy, registering and requesting absentee ballots for already over 200 students. We are putting in place a program that would register every single student at each US military service academy--that would mean a drive registering over 15,000 people to vote!

On top of that, we're teaming up with Washington/Baltimore area universities to deliver much needed books and supplies to Baltimore city schools. We're putting together care packages for troops overseas. We're helping struggling communities out by partnering them with businesses who can improve their local economies.

In short, 2008 is all about "what [we] can do for our country." We hope that one of your New Year's resolutions will be to take the message of the American Leaders Organization to your school and community--together, we can make America a better place to live!

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain