October 28, 2008 06:41 PM UTC

Zach Braff entertains early voters at CU

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• by: Jenn at Obama for America in Colorado

From the Colorado for Obama blog:

Ordinarily, you might think it would be a struggle to get students to spend an hour at a political event during the weekend, but this is not your average election and Zach Braff is not your ordinary political speaker.

That’s why 1,000 students turned out at Mary Rippon Amphitheatre on Saturday. The star of ‘Scrubs’, as well as Ben Harper and Laura Dern, spent the sunny autumn afternoon entertaining the students and talking about the critical role they play in the election.

Zach told the crowd:

For months and months, I’ve been trying to get young people to vote, and my main message has been it doesn’t matter who you vote for — you get out there and vote. The most important thing is that you vote. I’ve been saying that for so long, and I’m tired of saying that. So I’m now going to come out and say "you’ve got to vote for Barack Obama."

I’ve been watching the news and they keep saying that Colorado is the new Florida. So I said, "get me on a plane to Colorado and tell those young people who use the interweb that they got to vote." You have to vote, you guys. You can vote early up until Halloween at the Rec Center. I love the Rec Center, it’s the best. You can do a lot of things at the Rec Center, I’m sure — I’ve never actually been to the Rec Center. But if I were to go to the Rec Center, I would vote.

Rebecca was at the event, proudly sporting her "I voted early for Barack Obama" button. She told me why she had voted early for Barack:

I voted because I’m tired of oil companies running our country. I want to bring to change to America. I think there are a lot of people who are suffering and it’s not right.

I didn’t want to wait in those lines. I would have, if I had put myself in that situation. But it’s so easy to vote early. Why put yourself in that situation? It could take you a couple of hours on election day, it took me 10 minutes the other day.