The Reagan surging ahead of Mondale one was by Jack Davis of MAD and TV Guide fame.
Goldwater running mate William Miller was in a “do you know me?” American Express ad and his daughter is admitted lesbian liberal talk host Stephanie Miller.
Then there are TV ads. As the book “Who’s Afraid of the Song of the South” (Jim Korkis) points out, Walt Disney (”Gradually, I became a Republican”) had his animators do this one for Ike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUt4fYTNhoI
>>The “John or Dean or Harry” mentioned in the song and caricatured as donkeys was meant to suggest Stevenson’s running mate, John Sparkman; Dean Acheson (Truman’s secretary of state), and Harry Truman
I knew of Stephanie Miller...I didn’t know that was her father though!
Wow!