Comedian Sarah Silverman has released a video urging young Jews to schlep to Florida to get their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama. Seriously. We’ll let her explain.

The New York Times confirms that the organizers may have a sense of humor, but the “schlep” is “100 percent real.”

The Great Schlep:
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