Posted on 09/07/2008 8:40:48 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Poltical conventions were first broadcast on television in 1948 but it wasn't until 1952 that presidential campaign commercials made their appearance on the tube. The first candidate to have his commercials on the air was Dwight D. Eisenhower. One of the first of these commercials was this "I Like Ike" animated commercial above produced by Roy Disney. Although it is rather crude by today's standards, it is catchy in a corny sort of way. Back then, jingles such as this one were quite big and the Eisenhower candidacy was sold on the air with the same repetitive techniques as toothpaste or detergent commercials.
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I’m sure a lot of folks who lived back then miss Ike now.
I was wondering if they were trying to appeal to the gay vote with that Ike/Bob/heart thing......
BTW...I do like Ike, that is the name of my yellow lab.
Yeah, that Ike <3 Bob thing was definitely strange.
Things have changed since then? Hardly apparently, we have:
1. the first of those four is a positive patriotic GOP commercial for Ike.
2. The second is a Dim commercial trying to tie the GOP nominee to someone else, Taft, just like they want to do this year.
3. The third is Ike running for reelection as an agent of change.
4. The fourth is the Dims running against the great depression with the only difference now nobody was alive in 1931 so they just lie about the current economy.
All it would take is a few name changes to run those ads today, though of course no one would because their production values are so low.
It was a take off on a commercial about “Snow Drift”. Snow Drift is sorta of like lard.
The commercial went something like “John” “Marsha” over and over then in unison they said “Snow Drift”.
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