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131 statements about United States presidential election in 69 videos, by upload date.

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2007

Also named in: Week 1 Condensed!

2008

  • 2008-01-08 · Sledding and YouTube Tag — Hank says lacking health insurance is one more reason he is leaning strongly toward the left in the upcoming election. — 00:01:20
  • 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — John notes it is Wednesday, June 4, the day after Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination for president; the open question is his running mate. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — John introduces ten of the most likely running mates for Barack Obama in 2008, giving an upside and a downside for each. — 00:00:46
  • 2008-06-16 · Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts — announcement: Hank announces that he and John are starting a temporary project, Obama's Idiots, about the 2008 presidential race, at youtube.com/obamasidiots. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John: The November 4 stop is an Election Day Spectacular in Greenwood, Indiana. — 00:02:56
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — announcement: Hank says he and John, still following the presidential campaigns, are both taking part in YA for Obama, where authors for young people write why they are voting for Obama. — 00:02:41
  • 2008-10-07 (said on 2008-10-08, implied) · Hank on the Debate — announcement: Hank's description says John is also posting a debate video and Hank will then post his regular video, making three videos that day. — video description
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — announcement: Hank says he and John are on YouTube's front page with a video made with Politico in response to the latest presidential debate, and recommends it. — 00:03:17
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — Hank playfully says that despite the presidential election he can only think about Paper Towns, whose release is on the scale of buying his first house. (playful) — 00:01:56
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — Hank says he just voted early, filling in a ballot at a polling place, so the day feels to him like election day, November 4th. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — ask: Hank urges viewers of voting age who have not yet sent in an absentee ballot to just go vote. — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — Hank argues early voting needs no excuse anymore and removes the risk that something on November 4th keeps you from the polling place. — 00:02:49
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: John: They miss the Yeti but are coming home to her the next day for the Election Day Spectacular in Greenwood, Indiana. — 00:02:18
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — John, in Indianapolis after a Nerdfighter event, watches election returns and says it is too early to say anything. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — John says he hates election night and would like to be able to sleep. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — ask: Hank hopes all viewers 18 or older voted today, calling it a historic day. (hedged) — 00:01:15

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2009

2012

  • 2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — John doesn't want to vote while sick, but after failing to vote in Florida in the 2000 presidential election he promised himself and his country he would always vote. — 00:01:10
  • 2012-08-24 · Happy Birthday John Green! — ask: Hank asks viewers over 18 to vote for somebody, not caring whom they vote for. — 00:02:41
  • 2012-09-21 · You. Must. Vote. — Hank says that, from his perspective, the only wrong vote is no vote, and almost all the reasons people give him for not voting are terrible. — 00:00:05
  • 2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — John says government debt and deficits are among the biggest issues in global politics, especially in the US because of the presidential campaign and the looming fiscal cliff. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — announcement: Hank says America is about to pick its president; for non-Americans he made a separate video, joking that Americans who watch it are bad people. (playful) — 00:01:12
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — announcement: Hank announces that the Harry Potter Alliance and the Vlogbrothers are teaming up on DFTVA, 'Don't Forget to Vote, America', for anyone who cares about the election. — 00:01:41
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — ask: Hank asks viewers to spread the DFTVA graphic far and wide so everyone who can will vote, to do their civic duty, and to post it everywhere, especially on election Tuesday. — 00:01:41
  • 2012-11-05 · Spicy Summer Camp Story — announcement: Hank notes the US election is tomorrow, the brothers have talked about it in every video for the last four or so, and expects John to tomorrow, so today he tells a story instead. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-11-05 · Spicy Summer Camp Story — ask: Hank: Giving the story's 'moral', Hank asks viewers to vote if they can, to photograph themselves at their polling place or with a ballot for a free DFTVA sticker, and to make sure everyone they know votes. — 00:03:34
  • 2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — recommendation: John's three-part guide to voting: wake at 6:22 a.m. anxious, research your polling place and all the races (link in the doobly-doo), then go vote. (playful) — 00:00:41
  • 2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — ask: John: Speaking as a former non-voter, John asks viewers to vote, promising they will never regret it. — 00:01:35
  • 2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — John says the moral of his spicy summer camp story is also: vote. (playful) — 00:03:09
  • 2012-11-07 · The 51st State — Hank calls the election one for the history books: the first female amputee in Congress, first female Asian American senator, first openly gay senator, first second term for a black president, and first legalizations of recreational marijuana and gay marriage. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-11-07 · The 51st State — Hank thanks everyone who voted on 6 November 2012 in the US and Puerto Rico and asks all to proceed toward a more perfect union, however many states it has. — 00:03:36

Also named in: Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins

2015

2016

2017

2018

  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank: The study found that bedtime cortisol rose after the election in young people who didn't vote for Donald Trump, more so in women and non-dominant groups such as LGBT people and people of color. — 00:00:54
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: In 2000 Hank lived in Florida and voted in his very first presidential election. — 00:00:00
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: The 2000 contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by 537 votes in Florida. — 00:00:09
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: President Trump doesn't talk like that: before the 2016 election he repeatedly said Democratic Party plots would deprive him of victory. — 00:01:23
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: Even after winning, Trump said he lost the popular vote only because millions of undocumented immigrants voted; Hank calls it lies told because they sounded good. (doubtful: millions) — 00:01:31
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank says Trump lied about undocumented immigrants voting, Pennsylvanians voting multiple times and Massachusetts voters bussed to New Hampshire, and said in the campaign the only way to lose was cheating. — 00:02:16

2019

2020

  • 2020-09-11 · If you don't go… — Hank says the video is mostly for US citizens: in the US people decide things together by voting, from president and lawmakers to laws, judges, sheriffs and ballot initiatives. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-11 · If you don't go… — Hank says people, himself included, tend to focus on the president, but every ballot holds many other items with huge impact. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-11 · If you don't go… — ask: Hank asks viewers to watch their state's video with pen and paper and write a voting plan: registration date, when to decide, and whether to vote by mail, early or at the polls on November 3. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John interrupts the video to go vote and returns having voted, with a sticker. — 00:01:50
  • 2020-10-23 · 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW — ask: Hank: Ten days before the US general election, Hank encourages everyone to vote right now, or, where they must wait, to make a plan now for when and how to vote on November 3rd. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-10-23 · 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW — Hank: Reason nine: this big election will and should be read as a judgment on the last four years, internationally and in how we treat each other; we vote for a story, not just people. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — ask: The description asks viewers to make a plan to vote at vote.org and make sure their friends have a plan too. — video description
  • 2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank: His son was born in the days before the 2016 election, which Hank was very worried about, so many searches are about Donald Trump. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank: Like Orin's head size, the laptop story had little data: the story was really our anxiety, and worry about the worry was legitimate, since it could lead people to faulty judgments lived with for years. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank says he looked up these searches because he doesn't know how to handle this moment; this will be a rough weekend for him. — 00:03:05
  • 2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank is very worried about the election, but says it will not end the pandemic, injustice and inequality, conspiracy theory, hyper-partisanship, or people's fear, anxiety and anger. — 00:03:05
  • 2020-11-03 · Alaska for Looking — ask: John: On election day John asks those eligible to vote in the United States to do so, and points to vote.org to find their polling place. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank: A few weeks after his second book came out Hank started a new project, then stopped, feeling he could not write it until after the election because the world would differ so much depending on the result. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank says he is not claiming the election doesn't matter: it matters tremendously in many ways for many people. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank thinks that if Biden is ultimately elected, many people will see it as a failure of Trumpism. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank says the rift, crafted over decades and deeper than many of its crafters hoped, was never going to be filled in one election; his hope that it would was faulty. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank thanks everybody who took part in the political process this time: it doesn't always feel great, but it is vital. — 00:03:00

2024

Also named in: My Ballot Made Me Angry

2026

  • 2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank recalls Pizzagate, and Donald Trump being elected president just days after Hank's son was born, which he found weird. — 00:01:30
  • 2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank says early in 2016 mainstream outlets' top election content far outperformed misinformation, but in the election's last three months top fake stories on Facebook got more views, shares and comments than major outlets' top stories. — 00:02:28