Only the issues

Created by creative director - Tor Myhren from Grey NYC, the posters slice through the race issue between candidates - acknowledging that much of this campaign has predictably but stupidly been re-cast as a battle between black and white. Myhren's powerful imagery rightly implies that this is all just distraction, seeking to refocus our attention onto what really matters - the issues.

Even before the results are in, the posters have become collectors items, with New Yorkers unable to help themselves from swiping them off the streets.

- Lisa Evans
Courtesy of thecoolhunter.net

Mudslinging + Hot, Trashy Girls = ...Politics?

Yeah, I thought it would be something a lot more fun, too. But then again, political advertising CAN be fun. As a former polisci major, and someone who did his project on political advertising in his advertising ethics class, political ads have always interested me. Most aren't fun, but I wanted to show that they can be.

I haven't made up my mind yet for the president (there's still some debates and such this fall, not to mention nastier and nastier advertising campaigns full of mudslinging), but I wanted to share this video. If she won, I think she might put up a decent fight against Merkel or even Thatcher for best looking president/prime minister, though Thatcher would clearly take the cake on trashiest.





More in funny political ads:


This is pretty funny: The 10 Funniest 2004 campaign ads

This ran earlier this year, before he got 0% of the vote. Yes, this is real.



And a "classic" from the mid-term elections a couple years ago: