Election Day Eye Candy (a kind of early voting)

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 8:11 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 20:11

I'd like to show a wide selection of political ads to my rhetoric and writing classes on Election day, and I need your help--y'all know a lot more about these things than I do. I'm looking for both the epic and the epic fail, and from both parties, since my students are a diverse lot.

What do you think are the most famous and infamous of past and present campaign ads? LBJ's "Daisy" ad is a classic, as is Jesse Helms' "white hands" ad. But surely there are more like these, right? And then there's Liddy Dole's "Promises" ad, which is where I got this idea from.

My first-year students are turning in a paper on election day that will be a letter to the new president-elect about an issue of importance to them. I would like to reward them for their hard work by showing them the best and the worst of American political ads so that we can discuss the visual and verbal rhetoric.

Please provide a link if you can--and thanks for all suggestions!

The McClellan Effect

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Sunday June 01, 2008 · 8:25 AM PDT

2008/06/01 · 08:25

In today's NYT, Frank Rich engages a topic that has been on my mind a lot recently: why the tiny, seemingly inconsequential pebble of Scott McClellan's new book should be creating such a huge ripple effect. After all, there is nothing new in this book, and it in fact is a far kinder rendering of Bush and especially McClellan than seems truthful or warranted.

What is the cause of the uproar that has kept McClellan in the news? Rich concludes, basically, that it's the war, stupid--that Americans are unhappily fixated on not only the failure of the Iraq War, but particularly on its duplicitous beginnings, and therefore any new telling of that story captures our attention.

To my thinking, Rich's analysis is incomplete.

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Saturday May 31, 2008 · 7:02 PM PDT

2008/05/31 · 19:02

Now that it is achingly clear that she has well and truly lost the nomination from the Democratic party, will she be able to accept that, or will she decide to run as an independent? She can still run as an independent, can't she?

I was originally an Edwards supporter, and when it became clear that he was out, I chose to vote for Obama in the Texas primary. I caucused for him that night and then at the county convention, and now I will be volunteering to be one of the Obama reps at the state convention next week.

And the more that time passes, the more relieved I am with my choice. There is a nobility to how he handles himself that is the opposite of elite, in fact.

What an exciting moment in history! I'm on tenterhooks waiting to see what Hillary will decide.

UPDATED TO ADD: I am confused by comments that want me or my diary to go away. Why is my concern/diary not valid? How am I helping or hurting anyone by asking questions?

The current state of HPV vaccine (re: Darksyde's diary)

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 12:46 PM PST

2005/11/04 · 12:46

Since Darksyde's links were from April, here's where the HPV vaccine controversy currently stands. In sum, the situation with approval of this vaccine is not nearly as dire as indicated in his diary. Where political action comes into play is whether or not this vaccine should be mandatory. One thing that bothers me is that the powers-that-be may decide to vaccinate girls only, despite the fact that boys can both carry and become infected by HPV. A girls-only vaccine is inherently sexist. Please read on! Read More

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Election Day Eye Candy (a kind of early voting)

The McClellan Effect

Will Hillary Pull a Lieberman? [UPDATED]

The current state of HPV vaccine (re: Darksyde's diary)