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September 29, 2016

Rock the Vote With The Peanuts Gang + Giveaway

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It's election season! Time to rock the vote with the Peanuts gang! I have a fun interview about their initiative and a great t-shirt giveaway!

 

Peanuts Rock the Vote

As a Peanuts Brand Ambassador I’m so happy to partner with them to bring you this fun interview and giveaway! As you know (unless you live under a rock) it’s election season. And what an election season it is, right?! Ack. I’m kind of ready for it to all be over. But the great thing about America is that we all have a voice and no matter what your thoughts are on our choices this year, it’s important to exercise your right to VOTE!

The Peanuts Gang has partnered with Rock The Vote to help spread the message and encourage all of us to make our voices heard. Here’s more info about that initiative from actress -singer Nikki DeLoach, who you might know as the mom in the very complicated mother-daughter relationship on MTV’s irreverent comedy Awkward!

Interview with Nikki DeLoach

Nikki—whom some of you may remember as a child member of The Mickey Mouse Club, along with Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake, and Keri Russell!— stars in one of the fantastic celebrity YouTube PSAs promoting the Peanuts Rocks the Vote campaign. Take a look at her video:

Nikki DeLoach’s Rock the Vote 2016

So fun! Here are the highlights from our interview with her:

Tell us about the Peanuts Rocks the Vote campaign.

This is a partnership between Peanuts and Rock the Vote, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that’s been encouraging and helping young people to register to vote since 1990.

When you go to Peanuts Rocks the Vote dot com, you’ll find a mock presidential election going on among the Peanuts characters: Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Sally, and Franklin. You can read their bios and their platforms, and then you can vote for your favorite.

Then, right there on the website, there’s a button that says “Register,” and when you click on that, Rock the Vote will help you register to vote in your location.

And why is Peanuts doing this?

Politics has been a recurring theme in the Peanuts comic strip for decades—Charles Schulz often had the characters running for president during actual presidential election years. He even had Lucy talking about wanting to be the first female president!

So Schulz believed in our democratic system, and Peanuts wanted to play their part by helping people register to vote. But of course, they do it with a unique Peanuts flair!

It's election season! Time to rock the vote with the Peanuts gang! I have a fun interview about their initiative and a great t-shirt giveaway!Are you a Peanuts fan?

Of course! Who isn’t?!

I know a lot of celebrities—including yourself!—have taped fun PSAs promoting the Peanuts election and the Peanuts Rocks the Vote campaign. What made you want to do one?

I just feel that it’s such a privilege to be a citizen of this country, and part of the deal is that we participate in the election process. I know sometimes people, especially young people, feel that their vote doesn’t count or doesn’t matter, but of course that’s absolutely not true! It’s so important that everyone use their voice and their vote. And this was such a fun way to get that message out!

Who are some of the other celebrities who have taped PSAs?

There are so many great ones, from both the 2008 and 2016 elections, including:

  • My Awkward co-star, Jillian Rose Reed
  • John Oliver
  • Whoopi Goldberg and Candace Cameron Bure from The View
  • George Lopez
  • Eden Sher from The Middle
  • Vanessa Marano from Switched at Birth
  • Deborah Norville from Inside Edition

You can see all of them when you go to Peanuts Rocks the Vote dot com and click on “Celeb Endorsements.”

In addition, there are educational materials for teachers and activities for kids grades K through 8. Can you describe in more detail?

Yes, there are materials that provide a fun way to get children involved with the issues of elections, campaign promises, polling, and candidate platforms.

The curriculum specialists at Young Minds Inspired created three lesson-planning guides for grades Kindergarten through 2nd grade; three through five, and six through eight. Copies are going out to thousands of schools nationwide. There’s also a DVD of the Peanuts television special, You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown that parents and teachers can use as a fun teaching tool about elections.

And finally, I know the Schulz Museum has two special election-themed exhibits on display right now. Can you talk about those?

Yes, and they sound so great!

One is called Snoopy Presents: Lucky Dogs and Presidential Pets, and it features photos and fun facts about presidential pets. The exhibit goes all the way back to George Washington’s hunting hounds and Thomas Jefferson’s riding horses, and it also includes presidential pets you probably never heard about, like President John Quincy Adams’ pet alligator, who lived in the White House in an unfinished East Room bathtub!

There’s a great display on John F. Kennedy’s dog, Pushinka, who was a gift from Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev. The dog’s mother, Strelka, flew aboard Sputnik 5 and landed safely back on Earth.

The other exhibition is called Mr. Schulz Goes to Washington, which focuses on the intersection of politics with Charles Schulz and Peanuts. You can see some of Schulz’s correspondence with several American presidents, including a 1980 letter from Ronald Reagan, who was then in the middle of his own presidential campaign. Reagan jokingly wrote, “Anything you can do to talk Snoopy out of running will be appreciated. How would he feel about a cabinet post?”

The Giveaway

It's election season! Time to rock the vote with the Peanuts gang! I have a fun interview about their initiative and a great t-shirt giveaway!

The generous folks at Peanuts are offering a fun giveaway for my readers! One of you will win your choice (based on available sizing) of these Rock the Vote Peanuts t-shirts, plus a book and DVD.

This giveaway is open to US residents only ages 18+ and will end at 11:59pm on October 2, 2016.

Good luck!

 

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  1. Vera S says

    September 30, 2016 at 00:10

    Yes, I am registered to vote. 🙂

    Reply
  2. Sheri bernal says

    September 30, 2016 at 04:04

    Yes. I am registered to vote.

    Reply
  3. Maralea says

    September 30, 2016 at 06:33

    Yes, I am a registered voter.

    Reply
  4. Jessica To says

    September 30, 2016 at 15:18

    I am registered to vote!

    Reply
  5. Fiona N says

    September 30, 2016 at 15:54

    Yes, me too! I am registered to vote!
    Thank You

    Reply
  6. G K says

    September 30, 2016 at 18:56

    Yes, I am.

    Reply
  7. pamela j says

    September 30, 2016 at 19:57

    Voting is very important. Yes I am.

    Reply
  8. Melissa T says

    September 30, 2016 at 20:01

    Yes, I’m registered to vote

    Reply
  9. jeani b says

    September 30, 2016 at 20:19

    i have to re-register! i have been registered in the past, but with a recent move i need to take the time to register in my new state.

    Reply
  10. Julie Lundstrom says

    September 30, 2016 at 22:52

    I registered and voted for Snoopy.

    Reply
  11. Richard Brandt says

    September 30, 2016 at 23:07

    In some states.

    Reply
  12. Nicole Sender says

    September 30, 2016 at 23:07

    Registered and voted for Snoopy today!

    Reply
  13. kelly tupick says

    October 1, 2016 at 05:05

    Yes, i am registered to vote.

    Reply
  14. cheryl s says

    October 1, 2016 at 14:12

    Yes I’m registered to vote

    Reply
  15. Tina W says

    October 1, 2016 at 17:52

    Absolutely registered to vote. And have helped several family members get registered this year also.

    Reply
  16. Audra O'Hara says

    October 1, 2016 at 22:42

    Yes, I’m registered to vote. I’m voting this year even if I have to walk in the snow to get there. 🙂

    Reply
  17. Megan Cromes says

    October 2, 2016 at 08:27

    yesi am registered to vote ty 🙂

    Reply
  18. Edye says

    October 2, 2016 at 12:13

    I’m not able to vote this year.

    Reply
  19. Kristen says

    October 2, 2016 at 15:45

    Yes, OF COURSE!

    Reply
  20. Amy C. says

    October 2, 2016 at 23:56

    I’m definitely registered to vote!

    Reply

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