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Unbossed and Unfancy

One of the guilty pleasures of the otherwise quite serious documentary, "Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed" is watching the campaign ads of the various Presidential candidates. The tune for "Nixon Now" (You can download the ad here) is surprisingly catchy and unrenlentingly optimistic, especially in contrast to the images of the war in Vietnam. The ads by McGovern, Humphrey, and Wallace are all refreshingly talky, on point, and on the issues. Chisholm herself comes across as straightforward, funny, and full of integrity.

If campaign commericals interest you, A Historical Look at Campaign Commericals lets you download whole commericals from 1960 to the present, making a good case for the argument that it isn't just nostalgia; political campaigns, even after the arrival of television, focused more on substance than they do now.