Slashdot Mirror
The Living Room Candidate
Karin Ponce writes "I represent the American Museum of the Moving Image , and I wanted to write to you about the Museum's latest online exhibition, The Living Room Candidate. The exhibition maintains a comprehensive and detailed collection of over 300 commercials from the past fourteen elections (1954-2000). As the presidential race heats up, I think this is a very timely exhibition that will equip your readers with insight on the development of the campaign messages crafted by our presidential candidates over the years and provide historical context for the 2004 campaign as the race unfolds. Its convenience (all commercials are available online in the Living Room Candidate website) make this exhibit a must-see for voters and non-voters."
Wow, I just went to the site and was perusing the 2004 election commercials. For once they gave a realistic view of our future.
Blank.
Remember to give serious thought to who you are voting for in November and make sure that those around you are at least somewhat educated on what they are voting for.
20 some comments & slashdotted!
Here's the google cache:
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:http://livinCheck my journal for gmail invites!
I heard just last night at a Boy Scout meeting on the Communication merit badge, that in 1980 (?), Kenedy spent millions and millions (or .1 sagan) of dollars on advertising his campaign, only to find out afterward that it actually hurt him. He would have been better off if he had spent $0.
Keep in mind when doing this that the people who submit entries to Wikipedia are most likely computer savvy people, and these people tend to lean more to the left in politics. That, and it seems there's a record amount of Libertarians online, including Slashdot sometimes.
Barely anything is unbiased anyway.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
so far as I can tell, not true of Clinton
Dole race (just a casual googling tells me
this). Where do you get your data from?
In every presidential election covered by television, the candidate with the most campaign money has become President.
Care to back up that assertion? I must have missed Bob Dole's narrow victory in 1996, then...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Morphed (through Congress) into that stupid Medicare Perscription Benefits Card- which insures mainly that the drug companies get to keep their profits while the local pharmacy loses theirs.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Personal Wealth != Campaign Money
-1 Math Challenged
Kerry uses his "heroic" Vietnam career as a campaign point, even as he has admitted that he committed war crimes in Vietnam.
Not so. Kerry's "we committeed war crimes" was not referring to his own unit. It was referring to the "we" of the Winter Soldier investigation, whose allegations he presented to Congress.
If you take the armed forces in Vietnam as a whole, they DID commit war crimes. Ever hear of Mi Lai? SWVFT seem to want to ignore that when they get all indignant about Kerry saying "we the armed forces committed war crimes."
I work as the IT manager for a political consulting firm. It's above 88% of all campaigns that spend the most money win.
I work as the IT manager for a political consulting firm. It's above 88% of all campaigns that spend the most money win.
Maybe you just have a good firm. Scroll down a bit on this page and you will noticed that Republicans always spend more than democrats, and they aren't winning 88% of the time.
To throw this back on topic, it would be more interesting to know if the better looking man won in each presidental election. That would show the true power of television when it comes to presidental campaigns.
I love snopes.com. I hope it suits your criteria that mostly clears up the controversy.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/service.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/swift.asp
Sources are listed at the bottom of each link and be sure to check out the rest of the Kerry and Bush articles. I think you'll find it's relatively balanced.