Monday, November 24, 2008
News Jim Martin ad or iPod commercial?
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM
The craziest political campaign ad I've seen in a long time went up on Atlanta cable TV over this past weekend. What's so crazy about it? Well, for starters, it's animated, monochromatic and uses flashy graphics. Also, it has no campaign rhetoric, no candidate testimonials – in fact, no voice-over whatsoever – nor does it mention the opponents and why they suck.
Instead, the ad looks like an iPod commercial – OK, maybe more like a Zune commercial, but you get the idea.
Get jiggy wit Jimmy!
Paid for by the Young Democrats of Atlanta, it's a content-free appeal to the Obama Generation to come out and vote for two middle-aged guys named Jim. The only thing it lacks in order to lock in the youth vote is footage of B-boy Jim Powell doing the worm. The ad's house-lite soundtrack does, however, show why having Apple's music-licensing budget is a good thing.
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That's really awful. They should've just spliced in clips from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Maybe we can get Shirley Franklin, Andy Young and John Lewis to do another "your life depends on it, dogs and fire hoses" radio spot? If we don't create a sense of urgency, Saxby's gonna win going away.
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