The slogan “get out and vote” is big because it’s similar to the one we had a couple or year ago by Sean Puffy Combs vote or die. They both just try to get people out to vote so they can express their opinion on who is going to run this country. The importance of voting has increase during the years. When I first started reading it reminded me of myself because I don’t think that if I vote is going to make a difference that my vote really wont matter at the end or just that I don’t know enough about the candidates to make a decision. To me the voice behind the slogan is the voice of a non voter or a person who votes but also gives importance to the non voters and their rights. Maybe is just me but I can’t tell if she has a political affiliation because I don’t like politics that much and I haven’t been around in the US enough to know the difference between parties. I do believe that the person speaking is a woman even tough is not but it might be some of the wording that might have let me to believe that it was a female instead of a male.

The audience for this slogan is everybody the voters and the non voters. It tells the voter who complain that people don’t vote that maybe they had a good reason not to vote. Like it said in the example of the essay about the school elections when that guy that did not know anything about the candidates didn’t vote because he wanted the people with actual knowledge about the candidates vote instead of just putting down a name just to say that you voted. All media has different ways to make you vote or try to get you out and voting. The music industry does it also like I mention before Diddy had a strong campaign for voting last election and it seem to work since there was an increase in the voting poles. Then other artist had “Rock Your Vote” another way to pursue the young people to vote. For the rest of the ages I think is mostly television all the candidates speaking in debates, going from state to state trying to get their message out to the people so they can vote for them.

A new way of getting people not to vote for you has been the attack messages that the other candidates put on television trying to change people’s opinion in voting by bringing up bad things about their opponent. For these primaries I haven’t seen commercial of that sort but when the sparks is down to the last two candidates, will start flying. It gets more intense when is down to the wire and is not there yet and we are having some fire within the same political party.

The argument at the end is that the real importance in voting is not the just going to a booth and placing an X in the paper just because he had to vote. But instead if you want to vote you should learn about the two candidates study them and see what each ones brings to the table. If you do all the research then you can make a decision in which candidate you think is better. I agree with what the author said I you don’t know anything then you are just wasting your vote in a sense just falling into what they wanted in the first place to get people to vote for them because they are the most publicize not because of what they offer as candidates. The way I see it is if you decide not to vote then you can’t complain about how your country is been run you can argue why the other candidate would have been better because you decided not to vote. If you know enough about the candidates make a decision and then you can argue all you want about the way the president is running things. I’m the perfect example for that I didn’t vote so I can’t argue and to be honest I don’t think that I will vote. You may ask why? I really don’t know I might change my mind but for now that what I’m doing.

To my surprise I notice that the paper was written so long ago in 1955. Yet we still have the same issues going on today trying t get people to vote. But I think the only difference between then and now is that you don’t see the people caring about how much the people really know about the candidates they just want people to get out and vote. This might mean that back then it was more important that the people that had an actual knowledge voted instead of having many to show up to vote but have no knowledge about the candidates.

Voting is really important because is the only time where you can choose who is going to be making decisions for you. Who is going be representing your country around the world. Go vote but with a sense that you know what you’re doing.