Presidential Election TV Ads

Posted by Miss Cellania in Media, Politics, Video Clips on September 12, 2008 at 11:37 pm



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Living Room Candidate is a site that documents political ads for every presidential election dating back to 1952. This ad is from 1956. Link -Thanks, Brian!

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9 comments to "Presidential Election TV Ads"

  1. Peeves
    September 12th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    2.5 million more women than men? Is this normal? Or was this initial post-wartime male population decline?

    Also, it’s amazing how the political ad lines haven’t changed.

  2. Miss Cellania
    September 13th, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Peeves, the difference is probably because women live longer than men. There are a lot of elderly women living alone, and they vote!

  3. SAdGirl
    September 13th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    As the years have gone by, Americans have clearly become
    dumber and dumber.

    Sad.

  4. Pudifoot
    September 13th, 2008 at 8:12 am

    Am I the only one that is amused at the timing of this post? Posting an “I like Ike” commercial as Hurricane Ike is destroying the Texas cost.

  5. ted
    September 13th, 2008 at 8:27 am

    SAdGirl: That’s a biased generalization.

    Are you saying that Americans became dumber because the women who ran the family home so efficiently went out to work instead, and are no longer around to help their kids with the homework?

  6. Pudifoot
    September 13th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    SAdGirl:

    By what measure are we getting dumber? Far more people per capita can read today than in 1952. We are better at a larger variety math. We are able to understand technology better.

    There is far less racism today than in 1952. I am not saying there is no racism, but I am white guy married to a Vietnamese woman, and I see almost no hatred towards us. I don’t think the same would be said in 1950.

    There are a thousand other ways that people today are better educated, better behaved, more tolerant, more open minded. So please, enlighten me. How are we ‘dumber’?

  7. Miss Flamingo
    September 13th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    My Grandma use to tell me she voted for Ike because she felt he was a man of honor being a General and all. Then she would add, “It was the worst decision I ever made!” God, I miss her.

  8. Justin
    September 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    What a fantastic website! You guys should check out more of the ads. The Fear ones are especially interesting.

  9. Fail Funnies
    September 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    The mainstream media has changed for the worse, and so has the recent campaign ads if you asked me.


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