Read my posts featuring some of the strangest, funniest and more effective political adverts.
This is from the 1952 US Presidential election, animated by Roy Disney, nephew of Walt. Quite fun – and also a healthy reminder about slipping into believing that politics now is awful compared to an imagined previous Golden Age. … Read the full post »
Long-time readers will be able to track how the headline I use when blogging about this gem of a political advert is steadily becoming more hyperbolic. The advertisement, however, fully justifies this. … Read the full post »
Sometimes you really need to watch a political advert all the way to the end, as with this one from Democrat Congressional candidate in Arizona, David Brill. … Read the full post »
Jimmy Flannigan, candidate for District 6 in Austin, talks about traffic, water, property crime, rising taxes – in one long, flowing take. … Read the full post »
One of the Conservative election posters featured in the excellent collection Dole Queues and Demons: British election posters from the Conservative Party Archive by Stuart Ball contains David Lloyd George and chocolate. … Read the full post »
An excellent dissection of political campaign ads work, starting with some lessons from Alfred Hitchcock. … Read the full post »
Music played a major role in one of the UK Labour Party’s 1997 general election broadcasts, which is the most powerful of all the ones I’ve seen ‘live’ at the time of broadcast. … Read the full post »
After 23 years of Liberal Party rule, Gough Whitlam’s Labor party in 1972 used the slogan “It’s time“ to sum up its argument that it was time for a change. … Read the full post »
The equivalent of the Electoral Commission decided to restore a giant poster of the former dictator that used to be a landmark of a suburban area of Tunis. … Read the full post »
The two seconds you’re left thinking ‘why is he holding the sword like that?’ in Wyatt Scott’s film before you realise ‘ah! that’s why’ are particularly genius. … Read the full post »