COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama, said Saturday all U.S. citizens should vote in the upcoming election.
Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address that those who choose not to participate in the electoral process are supporting the current status quo in the United States, The Hill reported.
"Your vote is important because if you don't vote, you are saying that you're fine with the way things are. You cast an equally powerful ballot for four more years that look just like the last eight," she said.
"In 2004, 16 million Americans who could have voted, didn't. Yet, the election was decided by just 59,000 votes in Ohio," Michelle Obama added.
"This time, we can't wake up Nov. 5 only to discover we fell just short and didn't elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden. We can't look back and think about what might have been," she said, referring to her husband and his vice presidential nominee, Sen Joe Biden of Delaware.
