October 10, 2008 08:44 PM UTC

Eva Longoria wants you to vote

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• by: Jenn at Obama for America in Colorado

From the Colorado for Obama blog:

It’s something that guys dream about — Eva Longoria, visiting their college campus, talking to them about how much they mean to her.

Last Saturday, it actually happened.

Eva, as well as actors Kal Penn and Adam Rodriguez, spent the day visiting college campuses around Colorado talking to students about their vital role in this election. The three started their day at Auraria campus where they spoke to several dozen students about the upcoming election and the importance of the youth vote.

Eva said:

People keep complaining about the government, complaining about Bush, complaining about the economy. But complaining is not going to change it — only you are going to change it. Obama has said many, many time "change can not start at the top. It starts with us." That’s the middle class, that’s college students, that’s you and you and you.

Colorado is a swing state. Colorado is one of the deciding states in this election. You don’t want to be known as the state that lost hope for the rest of the country. You want to be the state that changed the face of the nation by standing up and showing up and saying ‘no more, we want change.’ The people who are going to bring change to this country are you.

The actors then traveled up to University of Northern Colorado, where a field filled with students listened as Adam Rodriguez from CSI Miami spoke to the crowd.

He said:

The biggest part of what makes mediums like Youtube and Facebook so powerful is their capacity to spread virally. And that’s what you guys need to be today, you need to be the Facebooks and the Myspaces and the Youtubes once we leave here. You guys are the ones who want change and that’s why you’re here today. The important part is what you take from here and what you do after you leave here today. Let’s spread this virally. Let’s take this excitement we have, this opportunity to create change, and let’s be a part of making that change — this change that is going to carry us through the rest of our lives.

Here are some more photos from the actors’ day in Colorado: