I Want You To Glam Up The Midterms

In an election year, voting is more than just your civic duty. Its a chic way to make your voice heard.

- Billy Eichner

Have you heard about the most glamorous event of 2018? It’s bigger than the Oscars, or the Super Bowl, or all the other things I usually talk and think and tweet about. It’s the midterm elections on November 6, and it’s the selfie opp of the year.

At the last midterm elections, in 2014, roughly 12 percent of millennials showed up to vote. That’s a staggeringly low figure. But it prompted me to have an honest conversation with myself: I’ve skipped elections in the past, and so have many of my friends. Why? Election Day comes along, and for one reason or another, voting isn’t a priority. Plus, you can’t ignore the fact that the midterms aren’t … sexy. They sound and feel like homework.

That’s why my friends at Funny or Die and I created Glam Up the Midterms, a campaign to make sure that people, especially young people, have the information they need in order to vote—and then actually vote. We’re on the road visiting battleground states and encouraging people to register to vote because passion is great, marching is great, protests are great. It all has meaning. But nothing is as meaningful as actually, well, voting.