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Chris Rock on Tuesday Voting

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Chris Rock

New York Magazine quotes Chris Rock, currently on tour, at his Wednesday night Madison Square Garden show:

“They don’t want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn’t vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come.”

Amen. Why do we vote on Tuesday? Find the answer by clicking here.

You can watch Barack Obama and John McCain talk about what they think of Tuesday voting here. And here’s more about who we are and what we do.

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- Jacob Soboroff

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