Although things haven't really gotten fired up -- what with the fall-out from the primaries determined long ago and the Republican and Democratic conventions yet to happen -- but pretty much everyone is aware that a presidential election is happening.
One place where it's pretty difficult to escape the convention, even now these months before the election, is on the tube. Both the Kerry and Bush campaigns have been spending big bucks on political commercials trying to demonize the other guy and/or reinforce their own proximity to perfection.
An online site that enables us to not only look at the current crop of commercials, but to take a look back at presidential politic polemics, at least through the view of the tv screen and political advertising.
The site is called The Living Room Candidate and is part of the American Museum of the Moving Image.
I'm still back looking at the commercials used during the Eisenhower/Stevenson and Kennedy/Nixon eras, but they have them, as I said, right up to the present campaign.
By the way, you can view them by campaign year but also by categories (biolgraphical, fear, documentary, commander-in-chief, etc.) or by issue (civil rights, taxes, war, welfare, etc.).
One amazing source that gives us a look at the political process and cultural change, not to mention the change in television as a medium and advertising as an "art."
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