Gaming Marathon Will Raise Funds for Obama Campaign

October 13, 2008 -

A press release posted at examiner.com describes an upcoming five-day gaming marathon which will raise funds for the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

The “Gaming for Obama” marathon kicks off at noon on October 20th and runs until midnight, October 25th. A live feed will be provided by Justin.tv (GP: the site which ran the leaked GTA IV game play footage).

VH1 personality Rey Gutierrez (left), who will host the marathon, commented:

‘Gaming for Obama’ is not just a fund raiser, but also a way to raise awareness in the gaming community to go out and vote for their favorite candidate on Nov. 4. Instead of hitting the streets with banners, we’re using modern technology and tools no one has really tapped into to reach a demographic that historically has had a low voter turnout.

 

We’ll be playing next-generation and past-generation games, including Rock Band, Halo, Call of Duty and many more titles, on all gaming platforms. Viewers will see everything through multiple cameras set up around my house. Gaming. Sleeping. Eating. Showers. No, kidding. No showers.

Local Miami gamers are invited to drop by while other gamers are welcome to join in online. Gutierrez, who also hosts justin.tv's R3Y’S GAMEDAY EXTRAVAGANZA (R.G.D.E), hopes to reach out to Hispanic voters as well during the Obama marathon:

 

Two of the R3Y’S GAMEDAY crew are fluent Spanish speakers, so we hope to attract that market since it is the fastest-growing minority in the United States and a critical group of voters in the upcoming election.

Comments

Re: Gaming Marathon Will Raise Funds for Obama Campaign

Submitted by King of Fiji on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 13:35.

Election day is almost upon us, Obama is already outspending McCain, and he has his own channel.

I don't see why he needs anymore money.

Re: Gaming Marathon Will Raise Funds for Obama Campaign

Submitted by TaoJeannes on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 13:04.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/23/18-awareness/

Re: Gaming Marathon Will Raise Funds for Obama Campaign

Submitted by SeanB on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 08:35.

LOL @ all the comments on the last thread to hold Obama's name.

Guess this settles it.

 
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