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If this is the funniest, the competition must have been really bad!
On my amuse-ometer, that’s up there with the time I put my contact lenses in after chopping chillis.
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
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/
And what about this for a “don’t wake up with the wrong result” message?
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”.
angus hucks remarks about kids in ormskirk being given peices of gingrbreadmen,
I was one of those kids
now wheres the video …..youtube????