Monday, December 15, 2014

Some Awesome/Creepy/Unintentionally Funny Pol Ads

I have a student (I'll call her "Brigitte," because that's her name) who is working on the relative influence of TV vs Youtube as an effective medium for political campaigns.  An interesting topic, though a hard thing to measure accurately.

But the great thing (for the present) is all the truly strange and/or wonderful ads she has come across.
Here's a sampling:

Chuck Grassley's twitter

Beware the Insider-asuarus

Hosed

Hotdog

Big Bad John

Economics for Five Year Olds

But then I can't resist adding my own effort, from 2008.

Jump in the Ocean  (notice the campaign sign.  That kind of production value is what really makes a video.  Okay, not.  Thanks to Barbara H for all that driving, and filming.)

1 comment:

Thomas W said...

Then there's this one (I first heard about through an Economist article a week or so after the election about humor in political ads):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/15/if-you-have-a-boehner-lasting-more-than-23-years-gop-candidate-releases-hilarious-ad-about-electile-dysfunction/