Comments on: The funniest US political ad? http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kev panther http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-36671 kev panther Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:12:26 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-36671 angus hucks remarks about kids in ormskirk being given peices of gingrbreadmen, I was one of those kids now wheres the video .....youtube???? angus hucks remarks about kids in ormskirk being given peices of gingrbreadmen,
I was one of those kids

now wheres the video …..youtube????

]]> By: Angus Huck http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27890 Angus Huck Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:04:08 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27890 Does anyone remember Labour's "Yesterday's Men" poster from the 1970 General Election? It featured plastercine models of leading Tory politicians stuffed into a wastepaper bakset: Ted Heath, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Enoch Powell, Reginald Maudling and Iain MacLeod. The right place for them, you might think. The success of a campaigning gimmick can perhaps be measured by the length of time it sticks in the memory. For instance, Quintin Hogg prancing around Brighton beach in swimming-trunks ringing a hand-bell. (Well before my time, of course.) Or Cyril Smith in Ormskirk on the day the October, 1974, General Election was announced. He had a gingerbread man in his hand and he broke it up and gave out to pieces to local kids. "The gingerbread man wants you to vote Liberal," he said. Actually, I think no-one has done better than Graham Tope, in the December, 1972, Sutton & Cheam byelection, who took a pick-axe to a gulley bocked with tarmacadam. It hammered into the popular imagination the newly developed concept of "community politics". Does anyone remember Labour’s “Yesterday’s Men” poster from the 1970 General Election?

It featured plastercine models of leading Tory politicians stuffed into a wastepaper bakset: Ted Heath, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Enoch Powell, Reginald Maudling and Iain MacLeod.

The right place for them, you might think.

The success of a campaigning gimmick can perhaps be measured by the length of time it sticks in the memory.

For instance, Quintin Hogg prancing around Brighton beach in swimming-trunks ringing a hand-bell. (Well before my time, of course.)

Or Cyril Smith in Ormskirk on the day the October, 1974, General Election was announced. He had a gingerbread man in his hand and he broke it up and gave out to pieces to local kids. “The gingerbread man wants you to vote Liberal,” he said.

Actually, I think no-one has done better than Graham Tope, in the December, 1972, Sutton & Cheam byelection, who took a pick-axe to a gulley bocked with tarmacadam. It hammered into the popular imagination the newly developed concept of “community politics”.

]]> By: Stuart http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27881 Stuart Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:04:24 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27881 And what about this for a "don't wake up with the wrong result" message? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63h_v6uf0Ao&mode=related&search= And what about this for a “don’t wake up with the wrong result” message?

]]> By: Andy Harrison http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27873 Andy Harrison Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:43:07 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27873 It's worth searching out the website & accompanying book of a US ad guy called Bill Hillsman. He created ads for Jesse Ventura, liberal Democrat former senator Paul Wellstone as well as Nader. They are almost all v funny & also v effective. You can view some of them on his website: http://www.billhillsman.com/ It’s worth searching out the website & accompanying book of a US ad guy called Bill Hillsman. He created ads for Jesse Ventura, liberal Democrat former senator Paul Wellstone as well as Nader. They are almost all v funny & also v effective. You can view some of them on his website: http://www.billhillsman.com/

]]> By: Ed http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27860 Ed Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:57:27 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27860 No this is the funniest ever (though I cant figure out how to make the screen bigger): http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/humphrey.mov No this is the funniest ever (though I cant figure out how to make the screen bigger):

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/humphrey.mov

]]> By: Paul http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27857 Paul Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:11:25 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27857 On my amuse-ometer, that's up there with the time I put my contact lenses in after chopping chillis. On my amuse-ometer, that’s up there with the time I put my contact lenses in after chopping chillis.

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27855 James Graham Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:55:59 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-funniest-us-political-ad-1182.html#comment-27855 If this is the funniest, the competition must have been really bad! If this is the funniest, the competition must have been really bad!

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