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With all the sturm und drang of American presidential politics it's pretty easy for the educated gamer to come to the conclusion that they might as well just stay home, avoid the chaos and pick up those final missions in Grand Theft Auto IV. At least you have some control over what happens in Liberty City.
Not so fast says the Video Game Voters Network.
While the democrats are busy in Denver back slapping, road closing and parading all over the place to celebrate the foregone conclusion of Obama's nomination, politicians are hard at work trying to blame videogames for the problems our elected officials can't seem to solve through flag waving and partisan pandering.
And the VGVN wants to fight back.
By encouraging the videogame generation to fight back at the ballot box, the VGVN is taking on dumb, lumbering industrial age politicos as if they were level bosses. And as any gamer can tell you, the way you beat a boss is by finding his weakness.
Writing letters, making a fuss and promising to vote for the other guy if you start mindlessly blaming videogames is like a golden arrow into the heart of the campaigning beast.
How did Obama outrun Hillary for the Dem's nod? Does anyone remember Hillary's anti-game tendencies? I'm not saying that's what brought her down. But an awful lot of people play games these days. I'm just saying.
