Daily Links for September 9th
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments
- FRAMESHOP by Jeffrey Feldman - To really see what that ad does, we need to realize that from that point forward the election of 1984 was not so much about votes looking at Ronald Reagan or Walter Mondale. It was about each person looking at an idealized image of the perfect nuclear family, surrounded by a white fence, in a state of perfect bliss while doing the most mundane and ordinary things–and it was about which party they thought about when those feelings came over them. That 1984 ad was so effective that I suspect it is the real reason why Barack Obama has not been able to pull ahead of John McCain in the polls. There are still millions of Americans fixated on that ad–millions of voters who, when they look at the 2008 Presidential election, do not see John McCain or Barack Obama or Joe Biden or Sarah Palin. They see the white picket fence, the old man in the blue sweater, the perfect lawn, the blissful little girl skipping along.
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Barack Obama, Jeffrey Feldman, Joe Biden, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, SARAH PALIN, Walter Mondale
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