"I'm just talking to students here, making sure everyone is voting," she told MTV News. "If they haven't, I'm telling them the clock is ticking. Today is D-day. Gotta vote."

Nixon was also there to speak out against Florida's Proposition 2, which would define marriage as being between a man and a woman, effectively banning same-sex marriage. "It's an antigay initiative," said Nixon, who is in a lesbian relationship. "It's not like gay marriage or civil unions aren't already illegal in this state. They just want to make sure that no people in a domestic partnership can receive benefits, which obviously affects a lot of gay people, but it affects a lot of straight people too, particularly a lot of senior citizens. It's just nasty.

"I live with a woman," she added. "I don't live in Florida, so it doesn't affect me directly, but I feel any time there are homophobic propositions on a ballot in any state it affects me."

Meanwhile, she responded to the recent interview Barack Obama did with MTV News last weekend, in which he said he supports civil unions, even though he defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. "Of course, I would love it if he would say he is for gay marriage," she said. "But I feel like it's so close. ... He's for civil unions with all the rights and privileges of marriage. ... You know, for my money, you can call it whatever you want, but as long as we have our rights, that's the important thing."

Nixon is a stout Obama supporter and says she agrees with him on many issues, including the environment and the economy. "But if I had to pick one issue," she said, "it would be the Supreme Court. I just cannot see anymore conservative justices appointed. ... John McCain said that Roe vs. Wade was a flawed decision, and he'd like to see it repealed."

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Riding high on the success of the "Sex and the City" movie, HarperCollins has announced that Candace Bushnell (the author originally responsible for the Cosmo-swilling, Manolo-wearing phenomenon) will pen a set of two books about Carrie Bradshaw aimed at teens, to be dubbed "The Carrie Diaries," Variety reports.

The set of prequels will magically rewind time to Carrie's teen years, when she "began observing and commenting on the social scene," Bushnell said in a statement, adding that she's always been interested in writing about the future sex columnist's high school years. According to the original novel and TV series, Carrie moved to New York as a young woman, though where exactly she grew up is never mentioned.

"Carrie in high school did not follow the crowd — she led it," Bushnell explained. "[The new series] takes readers back to Carrie Bradshaw's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie's friendships, romances and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer."

Though Carrie was the lead character of the show and the narrator of the novel, fans would probably want to know about the early years of Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha, too. Maybe if the kids love these enough, the other girls will also get the YA treatment.

The first book will come out sometime in 2010. The "Sex and the City" movie will be out on DVD next Tuesday (September 23), the day after the release of Bushnell's new novel "One Fifth Avenue."