Jim Martin ad or iPod commercial?
Monday, November 24th, 2008The craziest political campaign ad I’ve seen in a long time went up on Atlanta cable TV over this past weekend. What’s so crazy about it? Well, for starters, it’s animated, monochromatic and uses flashy graphics. Also, it has no campaign rhetoric, no candidate testimonials – in fact, no voice-over whatsoever – nor does it mention the opponents and why they suck.
Instead, the ad looks like an iPod commercial – OK, maybe more like a Zune commercial, but you get the idea.
Get jiggy wit da Jimmyz!
Paid for by the Young Democrats of Atlanta, it’s a content-free appeal to the Obama Generation to come out and vote for two middle-aged guys named Jim. The only thing it lacks in order to lock in the youth vote is footage of B-boy Jim Powell doing the worm. The ad’s house-lite soundtrack does, however, show why having Apple’s music-licensing budget is a good thing.
