First lady Michelle Obama, wooing college students, on Wednesday said that voting was a good excuse for a first date.
At a rally for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, the first lady urged volunteers to help get people to the polls on Election Day to defeat Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
“Bring that cute guy or girl you have that crush on — that’s a good reason to connect,” she said in the liberal college town of Madison. “Just a tip! Trust me, they’ll be impressed.”
Her point was that elections matter, and she offered up her husband as the key example. Saying that voters chose his economic vision in 2008, the first lady said that everything has worked out as planned and the president’s policies averted an economic disaster.
“By almost every economic measure, we are better off today than when Barack Obama took office. That is a fact,” she said.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
