Please submit ads for the following categories by comment or e-mail*:
Please give the candidate supported (or paid for if an attack) and a couple word description.
1. Most Effective
2. Funniest
3. Strangest
4. Unintended Consequences
5. Sloppiest Attack
6. Context, Who Needs Context?
7. Apple Pie (Screams Mom, Apple Pie, etc.)
Awards will be given next week.
*The ads don't have to be from Mississippi, but they must be from 2007 and be political. No ad can win more than one category.
The final result may have a couple ties, but I'll give my early nominations:
ReplyDelete1. It's Delbert Ma'am. The purpose was name recognition and it was wildly successful.
2. Jim Payne Campaign "I don't know why people keep taking my signs..."
3. Graveyard Dude (Creepy anti-Franks ad)
4. Todd Brand anti-Sumrall ad
5. (This one will take me a while there is a lot of competition)
6. (I'll probably go to Louisiana or Kentucky for this one though we're still competitive)
7. Baseball Ad for Senator Nunnelee
These could change and I'd love to see your submissions.
I would've voted for Nunnelee's baseball ad for strangest, based on its awkward end. Either that or Brandon Presley's.
ReplyDeleteAny other suggestions for the other categories?
ReplyDeleteI have to go with "Jim Payne for state rep #2" for FUNNIEST because of an unintentional consequence.
ReplyDeleteThis is the ad where he is standing next to his competitor's sign and says "This sign is too big--you couldn't fit it into the trunk of a car." Then he turns to his right and says "This one's too heavy(here he taps the metal with his hammer)--you'd have to have a crane to move it."
Well, the guy with the metal sign was a Republican running for supervisor up here. Evdidently, that commercial called a lot of negative attention to his signs b/c a week or two after Payne's commercial was airing on TV, the guy took out an ad that ran in the paper up here explaining why his signs were that heavy-duty. He said it was because he had so much scrap metal laying around, but he lost the election by a pretty large margin.
That is funny. Keep 'em coming.
ReplyDelete1. Most effective: The Barbour ad listing the number of jobs created under his administration.
ReplyDelete2. Funniest: "It's Delbert, ma'am," but the Graveyard Guy (I actually LOVED that ad) comes in second.
3. Weirdest: Any of the J. Everett Dutschke ads against Steve Holland, especially the "illegal aliens" one (with all of the green alien masks, his kids running around screaming, etc). Honorable mention: Pro-Life Dave.
4. Unintended Consequences: The David Blount flyer where he took a right-wing position on immigration.
5. Sloppiest: The first Al Hopkins "you're fired" ad. It instantly made him look like a less substantial candidate than he was. Honorable mention: The screamingly ugly bright purple attack ads that the Republican and Democratic parties put out on Franks and Barbour, respectively.
6. Non Sequitur: The Eaves TV ad bashing Barbour for not being hard enough on immigrants.
7. Apple Pie: The Eaves ad with his kids. Runner-up: the Blount postcard signed by his 3-year-old son.
So, yeah. This didn't happen, but thanks for y'all's suggestions.
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