{"id":5737,"date":"2020-04-14T13:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:07:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:07:34","slug":"1956-campaign-favorite-ad-women-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/14\/1956-campaign-favorite-ad-women-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"1956 Campaign Favorite Ad: &#8220;Women Voters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Out of the Democratic and Republican advertisements I watched in favor of opponents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, my favorite was an advertisement called \u201cWomen Votes\u201d that was in support of Eisenhower. When looking at all the advertisements, I typically looked for ones that covered a wide variety of topics and did not attack the other opponent, because I believe attack ads are unnecessary if you have enough of a personal platform to stand on. For the \u201cWomen Votes\u201d ad, it first empowers the U.S. female population by letting them know they hold the majority vote in these presidential elections, because they belong to the larger population. It lists a few other reasons why women specifically should vote for Eisenhower, but then also fans into a row of interviews on different women giving their personal reason for why they will vote for Eisenhower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through the strategy of including numerous interviews of different women, that was also seen in another Eisenhower ad with just different civilians, the advertisement has the ability to include numerous platforms and reasons for why Eisenhower, or the candidate they are supporting, would be a better President. Through the stream of women, there was talk of family, education, powerful leadership, unity, taxes, social security, prosperity, and honesty. The list of advantages in voting for Eisenhower was able to be so long in this ad because they included upwards of a dozen different women giving their opinion on why they would vote for the Republican candidate. I believe advertisements that get the true opinion of the people and can touch upon a large number of advantages and platforms are the best for a presidential candidate, which is why the \u201cWomen Votes\u201d advertisement was my favorite from the 1956 campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Democratic and Republican advertisements I watched in favor of opponents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, my favorite was an advertisement called \u201cWomen Votes\u201d that was in support of Eisenhower. When looking at all the advertisements, I typically looked for ones that covered a wide variety of topics and did not attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}