http://livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1972

My favorite McGovern advertisement from 1972 is “This Time.” I couldn’t really tell you why I liked it more than other ads, but I really enjoyed the end of the ad when they shake hands and cheer. I also liked this commercial because not only did the dialogue bring up relevant topics that were around during his campaign, specifically about international relations, China, Russia war, veterans, and communism but because it was based on a conversation with one civilian it enhanced McGovern’s personability. The conversation also happened in front of what seemed to be a strong working-class community. Next, I noticed that McGovern had way more “anti-other candidate” commercials than Nixon. I am interested to see the spread of data in class to see if that has to do with his democratic party affiliation or if is just that Nixon was running again to he had decisions he made and things that happen while Nixon was in office to use against him.

I think there should have been checkboxes in our list about the Environment and Change/openness, and International relations. I felt like they were missing.

Additionally, I was drawn to Dr. Bezio’s pos cast because it made me think of my FYS First semester of my freshman year. I took a rhetoric class focused on the White House, and we also talked about the effect of being able to hear and see the president on VT and radio, and how heavily that impacted the public.