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" Chanel Iman, a model and one of the Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret Angels, is voting for her first time tomorrow! Find out why Barack Obama is her Election 2012 choice for President. I&amp;#039;m just going to come out and say it: I&amp;#039;m so excited I can finally vote! This November will be the first time I&amp;#039;m old enough to vote in a presidential election\u2014I was so bummed when I couldn&amp;#039;t in 2008. I had just missed the election when I turned 18 in December four years ago, but I certainly know who I would have voted for: Barack Obama. Over the past four years, the President has proven time and again that I would have made the right choice. I know too that he&amp;#039;ll continue to fight for our generation, which is exactly why I&amp;#039;ll be voting for him this year. On issue after issue, President Obama gets it. From expanding access to affordable, quality health care, to protecting women&amp;#039;s personal medical decisions and standing up for Planned Parenthood, to making key investments in education, to leveling the playing field so that women can fight for equal pay for equal work, to making known his support for marriage equality, he is fighting for all of us, not just some. He has delivered on promise after promise\u2014where to start? He said he would repeal Don&amp;#039;t Ask, Don&amp;#039;t Tell: promise kept. Why should who you love matter, especially if that person is willing to fight for our country? The President said he would pass laws against hate crimes: promise kept. We live in a country of respect and nobody in this country should suffer because of who they are, what they look like, what they believe in, or what faith they worship. This is the kind of progress we need to see for four more years. We need to work together so we can continue to move our country forward. For us first time voters, it&amp;#039;s especially important that we make sure our voices are heard. We can&amp;#039;t wake up on November 7 wishing we&amp;#039;d done more!  We often like to complain about what&amp;#039;s going on in the world around us, but then don&amp;#039;t do anything about it. There&amp;#039;s simply too much at stake to sit idle and watch this election whiz by without us. The ways we can get involved doesn&amp;#039;t end at voting. Now is the time to knock on one more door on your street. Now is the time to text or email every contact in your phone with a simple message: Vote! It&amp;#039;s okay to be that person when the stakes are this high. The difference in the 2000 election was only 537 votes, which is crazy. Something amazing started in 2008, and even though I couldn&amp;#039;t cast my ballot for President Obama then, I&amp;#039;ve got to make sure it doesn&amp;#039;t end now. The President has put us on the right track, and it would be silly for us to go back now. We&amp;#039;ve got to keep moving forward because our future depends on it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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