History of Campaign Ads

The Living Room Candidate is an exhibit that is open to Republican Convention delegates and is extremely interesting. It is being displayed at the American Museum of the Moving Image and is about the history of political campaign commercials. The online portion of the exhibit has an extensive archive of political campaign commercials from 1952-2004.

We've selected some of our favorites. Keep in mind these are real political commercials. The links are below will take you to the page. You will then have to click on the ad to get it to play. Enjoy!

Peace Little Girl (Daisy) (Johnson) -1964 - this is one you must watch
- Democrat column, #2
Convention (Nixon) - 1968 - completely crazy
- Republican column, #1
Rebuild America (Clinton) - 1992 - Our Personal Favorite
- Democrat columns, #5
Hopeful (Bush) - 2000 - there is what Bush said, and there's what Bush is doing
- Republican column, #7
Lov the Gov (Stevenson) - 1952 - song and dance politics
- Democrat column, #1

By Kyle - 8/29/2004