Are you tired of the ads yet? You knew who you were going to vote for on November 4 months ago so why all of the attention paid to this campaign by the media? Well I have discovered something that might be fun for you while the rest of America focuses on the most critical election of our lifetime. It is called The Living Room Candidate and can be found at www.livingroomcandidate.org. Take a look at it. I think you will enjoy it. In the meantime here are a couple of my favorite ads from past presidential elections. Why can't our candidates be this creative. After all, all of this talk about issues is really rather ridiculous, don't you agree?
This one really is catchy and was put out by Eisenhower's opponent, an Illinoisian with a funny name, Adlai Stevenson.
Of course, there are always the ads that play to emotion rather than reason. Remember the Swift Boat ads against John Kerry in 2004 or Hillary Clinton's ads asking who we wanted to answer the emergency phone in the White House at 3 AM earlier this year? Well, here is the one that topped them all. This ad ran only one time and was deemed so controversial it was pulled.
Lastly, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In 1968, Richard Nixon chose Spiro T. Agnew, a little known first term governor as his vice-presidential candidate. Here is a short ad (one of the first color ads I could find) that Democratic candidate Hubert H. Humphrey ran. Could the Obama campaign have borrowed this ad this year? Hmmmmm...
VOTE NOVEMBER 4TH!
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Pretty nifty. It is interesting to see how things have changed over the years...or have they? Go Vote!
Oh Ok I love the IKE commercial...it was great....
I agree, the Ike commercial was awesome! Nice and peppy. We somewhat have those still, it's called JibJab! he he
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