Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Campaign Signs?
In class Tuesday we touched upon the problem of campaigns removing (and sometimes destroying) signs of the opposing candidate. When dealing with campaign professionals I have often heard the phrase "signs don't vote". Regardless, almost all campaigns use them, and they are always prevalent during election years.
To tie this back into something more fun and relevant, it is fun when campaigns get caught stealing a candidates signs and replacing them with their own on tape by the local news in New Hampshire, and continue to do it. With all his money, you would think Mitt Romney could just overpower McCain with a sheer volume of signs. As a matter of fact, he has raised and spent almost twice as much as McCain.
One campaign, run by a professor in Oxford this last fall during the Mississippi legislative and statewide elections, had a problem with its signs disappearing. The campaign decided to poke fun at the problem in their ads. Jim Payne was running for a local state representative house seat.
Here are three more fun ads from Jim Payne: One : Two : Three
Do you think this is a good (and creative) solution for a campaign dealing with this kind of problem? What purpose do you feel campaign signs serve in an election? Do you think it is at all ethical for an individual to remove an opponents signs, whether legal or illegal?
To tie this back into something more fun and relevant, it is fun when campaigns get caught stealing a candidates signs and replacing them with their own on tape by the local news in New Hampshire, and continue to do it. With all his money, you would think Mitt Romney could just overpower McCain with a sheer volume of signs. As a matter of fact, he has raised and spent almost twice as much as McCain.
One campaign, run by a professor in Oxford this last fall during the Mississippi legislative and statewide elections, had a problem with its signs disappearing. The campaign decided to poke fun at the problem in their ads. Jim Payne was running for a local state representative house seat.
Here are three more fun ads from Jim Payne: One : Two : Three
Do you think this is a good (and creative) solution for a campaign dealing with this kind of problem? What purpose do you feel campaign signs serve in an election? Do you think it is at all ethical for an individual to remove an opponents signs, whether legal or illegal?
# posted by Anonymous @ 7:59 PM 
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I do think that this is a great ad, it shows the candidate's sense of humor. I'm sure he had other serious ads dealing with real issues. As far as stealing campaign signs go, if they are in right of ways then yeah take them. However taking them from private land is wrong and underhanded regardless if it is a campaign worker or not. Furthermore, when campaign workers take up opponent's signs they use time that could be much better spent making phone calls or knocking on doors.
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