I wanted to write this diary to bring attention to the KOS community of a wonderful website that I found that is very interesting and deals with Political Advertisement.
The Musuem of the Moving Image has uploaded every political ad since 1952, in a section of their website called The Living Room Candidate.
Please find the LINK here to that section of the website.
You can browse the ads by category, topic, party, or candidate.
Here is one of Dukakis saying he won't put up with Bush's lies. (I think Politico has this up too on their section under the Democratic Party)
Here is one from Ross Perot critizing "Trickle-Down" economics (I figure this one would be a good ad in today's enviroment and linking John McCain.
And these two ads are pretty tough stuff against Barry Goldwater by Lyndon Johnson. It's no wonder he won in a landslide. The days when democrats were tough in their ads.
Anyways, I thought I should share this with the community and hopefully we could get some good ideas for this election.
UPDATE: Click on this LINK and you go to a section about Democratic Party attack ads.
Here is a summary of the section:
When Dems Attack
The Democrats once had a fairly clear sense of who they were—and even when they lost elections, their ads hit harder at Republicans than the Repubs hit them. But in the late 1960s, the Dems started fighting among themselves over Vietnam, and the advertising started to reflect the party's confusion about where it stood. The GOP had no such doubts. You can't sell your product if you don't have faith in it. You can see Democratic presidential ads growing blander and more defensive starting around 1968. That only allowed Republicans to more easily paint Democrats as effete elitists who look down on "regular" people. The great image transfer had begun: the party of business and the wealthy now stood for the salt of the earth, while the traditional party of the people had become "elites." So it may come as a surprise now that the way-back Dems eagerly duked it out, often throwing the first, brutal punch.