Election Candy for the Young and Bored

by Maureen O'Connor | November 4, 2008 at 9:57 pm

Happy Election Day! While you stare vacantly into your television waiting for the country to choose one leader or another, here's a bunch of election-related YouTubes that may or may not be fun.

First up: Cornellians rap about rocking the vote:

After the jump: Under the Button parodies that obnoxious "Don't Vote" video, and cute kids impersonate the candidates.

Oh look! It's Under the Button namedropping us:


Don't read UnderTheButton.com from Street on Vimeo.

Thanks, Buttoneers. We'd take your advice and stop reading, but who would we steal stories and plagiarize jokes from, then?

This adorable Obama-emulating tyke is some Volokh Conspiracy's writer's nephew or something. But all I care about is the little "Ch-ch-change" boogie he does halfway through:

How could anyone vote for John McCain when impassioned babies like this one give "gweat speech about Bawack Obama"?

Here's a two-year-old who thinks McCain is too old:

Finally, for the sake of fairness, here's a toddler who flies into a raging tantrum when her father informs her that Obama is going to win:

Oh, those youth voters! So fickle, so naive, so likely to soil their pants!

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4 Responses to “Election Candy for the Young and Bored”

  1. Reason Says:
    November 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    Yay for using kids a political props! Not creepy at all, fellas.

  2. Buttoneer Says:
    November 5th, 2008 at 1:04 am

    Thanks for the mention! Can you please add us to your blogroll now?

  3. Anon Says:
    November 5th, 2008 at 3:27 am

    lol@ the CU video.

    looks like it was from a frat on west.

  4. Maureen O'Connor Says:
    November 5th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Buttoneer: Holy shit, I can’t believe you’re not on it. Massive oversight, you’ll be on it by the end of the day.

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