Creator of HBO's hit "Girls" Lena Dunham headlines a new tongue-in-cheek Obama campaign ad that compares voting to sex, a strategy that Ronald Reagan used in the 1980's, according to the Houston Chronicle.
"Your first time should be with a guy who cares whether or not you get health insurance and specifically whether you can get birth control," Dunham states.
In a veiled criticism against Romney, she adds that "your first time shouldn't be with just anybody, you want to do it with a great guy. It should be with a guy...who really cares about and understands women."
"You don't want a guy who says, 'Oh hey, I'm at the library studying,' when he's out not signing the Lily Ledbetter act"
She recalls her first time voting in 2008, labeling in a "line in the sand. First I was a girl, now I was a woman. I went to the polling station, I pulled back the curtain, I voted for Barack Obama."
While the video has drawn the ire of numerous viewers for sexualizing the voting process, the Houston Chronicle dug up a strikingly similar November 1, 1980 Ronald Reagan quote.
"On Thursday night, at a working class bar in Bayonne, N.J., Reagan said, 'I know what it's like to pull the Republican lever for the first time, because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great.'"
Dunham responded to criticisms with a tweet that reads, "The video may be light but the message is serious: vote for women's rights."
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