Recently our journey was made into a television documentary and aired on national television in my European home country The Netherlands. In this blog you can watch the film online and help me realize a goal that I set myself at the end of our journey. To convince Oprah to become America’s Ultilmate Motivoter… In the column to the right I hope to answer every question you might have about what a motivoter is, why I feel Oprah should take up this task and how our journey across non-voting America ended up at Oprah’s studio in Chicago. If I haven’t answered all your questions, don’t hesitate to shoot new ones to me, and put them in a comment.
Go WATCH the full film in ten episodes here on the blog (they’re free to watch). Please also READ how you can help me convince Oprah to become America’s Ultimate Motivoter.
Enjoy the blog and the documentary, and looking forward to your comments.
A very warm welcome to motivoter.com. As a European filmmaker and world citizen I’ve become absolutely fascinated by American politics. In this blog I want to tell you about our journey we made across non-voting America one year before the now already historic 2008 Presidential Elections.
It was a journey that led us along amazing people like a young single mom in Columbus, Ohio who told us how she struggled and waited in line for 6 hours to vote in the 2006 election, another mom and her son in New Orleans, Louisiana that stopped voting after hurricane Katrina, a retired math teacher in Kansas City, Missouri who tried to convince Oprah to run for president, an amazing little black lady that gave the Obama campaign the slogan “Fired Up! Ready to go!”, a talented young Latino politician in Las Vegas, Nevada, who wants to make Latino people vote through soccer, inspiring young college students in Iowa City who are trying to get Iowa ready for an Obama victory, and other inspiring people we’ve filmed…