Third Eye Blind to Help Obama Reach Iowa Voters Still Living in the 90s

Tonight and tomorrow night, the band Third Eye Blind will play concerts in Council Bluffs and Des Moines, IA, to crowds that are expected to be quite large. (Where all the people are coming from, I’m not sure.)

But that’s not the story. The story is that, according to rumors, they’ll be sporting Barack Obama t-shirts on stage, and that they may do more to promote the Obama campaign’s already-successful young voter outreach program during their performances and perhaps even beforehand, signing autographs and talking to prospective caucus-goers about the Illinois Senator with supporter cards in-hand.

Whatever one might say about the political endorsement race in Iowa between Sens. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama, this much is fairly certain: Obama does well with pop culture endorsements, and those can mean just as much — if not more — for a campaign that is really going after first-time and inconsistent voters.

And whatever you think of Third Eye Blind (not exactly a “change” band in the sense that Obama is considered a “change” candidate), they are at least a little cooler than Celine Dion.