Good Cause

by digby

Women’s Voice, Women’s Vote is launching a new voter registration drive for this campaign cycle tomorrow and it looks like it going to be fun:

20 million represents the number of single women who did not vote in 2004. Imagine the possibilities when they do vote! At Women’s Voices. Women Vote, we are trying to make this possibility a reality.

Please join us next Wednesday, October 31, as we launch our 2008 mobilization program with the premier viewing of our new “20 Million Reasons” Public Service Announcement campaign, starring Emmy-award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Louis-Dreyfus joins fellow actors Christine Lahti, Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Paulson and Jurnee Smollett. Filmed on a replica of the Oval Office, the result is a patriotic and provocative PSA and media campaign designed to mobilize the largest group of non-voters in America – unmarried women.

The engaging spots feature a group of women who reflect the diversity and greatness of our country including: Tina Gainsborough, an 87 year old daughter of a suffragette whose first vote was cast in 1932; Farrah Seigal an 18 year old magician about to vote for her first time; Jasmine Segura a Los Angeles Country firefighter; Marlisa Grogan an Iraq war veteran; Trina Ray a Jet Propulsion Lab astronomer who works on the Cassini satellite probe to Saturn; and Ana Cubas who celebrated her 18th birthday by becoming a US citizen and voting.

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The “20 Million Reasons” campaign will be broadcast on TV, radio and will be distributed across the Internet and social networking sites in English and Spanish.

WVWV is non-partisan and this is a good cause on the simple merits — more women voting, the better for the country, regardless of the politics. But the fact is that single women vote in far, far greater numbers for progressive candidates and causes than any other single demographic group. If they can be mobilized, it would be a juggernaut the Christian Right could only dream of.

I’ve had the pleasure of seeing a bit of this campaign and I think it’s going to be fun and hopefully effective. Keep your eyes open for it — and if you haven’t registered to vote, or know others who haven’t, you can do it right there on the WVWV site.

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