Battlepanda: Campaign ads of yore

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Monday, November 06, 2006

Campaign ads of yore

The most famous of this batch of ads from Johnson is the "Daisy" spot, where a little girl haltingly counts up to ten while pulling petals off a daisy, followed by a countdown to a nuclear explosion as camera zooms in on her face. However, the ad that really wowed me was the Glen Canyon Dam spot, which directly addressed the public works=creeping socialism meme coming from the Goldwater campaign.

Quite a change from the "let's see how many talking heads we can cram into 30 seconds" style of campaign ads, no?