For those who have yet to register to vote, today is your last day, even if it means simply filling out a change-of-address form.
In preparation for Election Day, actress Eva Longoria of the show "Desperate Housewives" and actor Adam Rodriguez of "CSI: Miami" have been driving around the country, rallying people to register and to vote for Sen. Barack Obama.
They spoke to 500 students at a rainy NMSU outdoor stage in Las Cruces.
"I don't know what the reason for not voting would be," Longoria said. "This is going to be the most historic and important election in our generation. We can stop what's going on, whether it's the economy or health or global warming. We could turn the tide right now."
She said there are 170,000 unregistered eligible voters in New Mexico and that the Democrats lost New Mexico by 6,000 votes in the 2004 election.
"Whenever you think, 'My vote's not going to make a difference' - it absolutely makes a difference," she said. "There's no question for who's going to change the face of America, and that's Obama. No question."
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UNM student Paula Wolf said although she's jazzed that Oprah Winfrey endorses Obama, she isn't affected by celebrity endorsements.
"I don't think that would weigh into my decision who I vote for, honestly," Wolf said. "But it might in the way I think about that actor or actress. If there was an actress that I really love and she was going to vote for (John) McCain, it might lower my opinion of that actress."
Erica Baca, a UNM biology graduate, said only the candidates can affect her decision on whom to vote for.
"A celebrity wouldn't affect my vote," she said.
Carlos Sanchez, who works for the Obama campaign, said Longoria and Rodriguez are not doing this to flaunt their fame.
"They're doing it because they want to make sure young people get out and vote," Sanchez said. "If they have a platform to which young people are attuned to, they're going to use it."
Rodriguez said people who are steadfast in not voting are making a mistake.
"They're being lazy and selfish," he said. "The people in uniform right now, as we speak, and in the past, have died for the right to vote. People take it for granted. I can't think of a good reason why someone wouldn't get up off their behinds and go vote. If their excuse is they don't like the choices, I think that is a bad excuse. It's easy to go ahead and make a decision. To me, that's Barack Obama. That's very clear."
