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The Living Room Candidate

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the candidates-in-the-modern-age dept.

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."

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  1. Wow, I haven't seen these ads! by garcia · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  2. Google Cache by diver8 · · Score: 5, Informative

    20 some comments & slashdotted!

    Here's the google cache:

    http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:http://living roomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
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  3. Kenedy by couldntthinkupagoodn · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Coincidence? by wes33 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

  5. Re:Coincidence? by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

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  6. Re:Here's an idea by Planesdragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    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."