I love the song (it's permanently embedded in my head now) and I love the message.
Take heed candidates: next time around, come up with a snappy tune instead of those run-of-the-mill ads and you can be sure more people will remember your message.
This ad, of course, isn't for any particular candidate. It's to remind people that they should actually do some homework before heading to the polls and if more people would do so maybe the US government wouldn't be in the current disastrous state it finds itself in. (Well, a gal can dream, anyway...)
As for candidates' ads, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza (who?) has listed his picks for The Best Campaign Commercials of 2006 and has raised the ire of some commenters for choosing the offensive RNC/Corker ad of which he writes:
The controversy is over the appearance of a young, scantily clad white woman who says she met Ford at a party at the Playboy mansion. At the end of the ad, she coos: "Harold, call me." Democrats alleged that the ad sought to play on fears of interracial dating among Tennessee voters; Republicans insisted they had done nothing wrong. Morally right or wrong? We leave that debate to others. Effective? You bet.
Is it too much to ask that he'd actually recognize the righteous outrage over this ad? Apparently so. And how can he possibly measure its effectiveness - which is the hill he chose to die on? Even Corker wanted the ad pulled and one has to wonder how such an obviously racist ad would be held up as an 'effective' example in today's world. That speaks volumes, doesn't it?
Meanwhile, I'll stick with my pick, whose tune I'll be singing for some time to come. That's what effectiveness is all about, Cillizza - not cheesy, sleazy, mud-slinging GOP crap like that RNC ad.
Come have some pie with me...
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