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In today’s Midterm Elections it is expected that the millennial turnout, those born in the 1980s and 1990s, will only be about half of what it is during a presidential election. HeadCount.org, which was co-founded by Marc Brownstein of the Disco Biscuits, is trying to reverse this troubling statistic with their #GoVote campaign. HeadCount.org has enlisted the help of over 300 entertainers to promote their #GoVote message including: Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Rob Lowe, Trey Anastasio, Stephen Colbert, Phil Lesh, Jackie Greene, “Weird Al” Yankovic, The Dixie Chicks, and hundreds more.

Our friends at HeadCount have rallied over three hundred entertainers and musicians to remind young people it is important that they vote. While the president is seen by many as the most important elected official in the country during midterm elections dozens of governors, a third of senators, all congressional representatives and many local officials are on the ballot. For the government to run effectively the president must be able to work with all of these other elected officials to effect change. This year with the house of representatives expected to remain squarely within the control of the Republicans, the battle for the senate is seen as the deciding factor in whether the last two years of Obama’s presidency will continue to have the tumultuous partisan gridlock that has plagued Washington over the past few years.

The 300+ entertainers involved average over one million social media followers each on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, totaling more than hundreds of millions in social reach. HeadCount has proven with this campaign the power of entertainers to influence young people in a nonpartisan way. HeadCount and the entertainers participating are not asking people to vote in any particular way but just that they #GoVote. It is an important message as many people don’t even realize there is an election or think that because it is not the presidential election it is not important. This is something that is just not the case.

if nothing else, a great chance to see what a clean garage looks like! #GoVote pic.twitter.com/aCZ1ConjCB — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) November 4, 2014

Most people don’t realize that their local elected officials do way more and have a way great impact on their daily lives then the president ever will. It is your congressional representative and your mayor and local city council that are most likely the greatest imputus of social and economic development to you and your family. The local laws that effect you are not created at a federal level but are created by the people that are elected in these off years. Take 20 minutes and just read the general platforms of the people running in the voting district that you live in. They all have websites and you should want to vote.

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