I’m really late with this, I just didn’t keept this blog in mind when I came across this video. So just for the record, here is Chuck Norris endorsement for Huckabee…

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Kinda funny, Reuters brought a story on a few presidential candidates’ campain songs.(You can vote for Hillary’s on youtube… whatever) I always love it when two subjects I like in this case marketing through music emotions and political marketing hit together.
So by googeling around I came up with a few more campaign songs. It’s actually not that easy to find (former) candidate theme songs. Would be cool to collect them all. Maybe I’m gonna write something on it later.
So far these are all I could find:
Bill Clinton - Don’t Stop
Mike Dukakis - America (Neil Diamond)
Al Gore - You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Ronald Reagan - God Bless the USA (Lee Greenwood)
Dwight Eisenhower - I Like Ike (Irving Berlin)
John F. Kennedy - High Hopes
George H.W. Bush - Don’t Worry, Be Happy
George W. Bush - Right Now (Van Halen)
Ross Perot - Crazy (Patsy Cline)

Happy analyzing
(Reuters link found through hypebot)

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This interview really is somewhat going deeper about the kind of news comedy Steward does and how the ironic perspective can reveal more of the truth than some serious presentation. The full interview is located here. He is really on the spot about the media role play and talking point politics. Definitely worth watching it, especially if you are interested in this kind of politainment and finding the truth behind all the political marketing smoke.

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I stayed away from it for quite a long time, but somehow this is a reason enough to get my hands again on some political marketing thoughts.

So according to the lates web buzz Hillary Clinton is going South, or let’s just say talking in a southern accent. It sounds really weird hearing her talking in this style, people of cause on the web start bashing her for disciminating, racial issures and the whole story.
Truth might be, that her reasearch analysts found out, that her New Yorker’ish tough girl attitude did some hurt to her ratings in the southern districts, so their Rover’esk like strategy heads came up with the brilliant idea of letting her fake it. But in this case the “fake it, till you make it” might definatleys hurt her in the long run.

Marketing and branding in such surroundings is more than a difficult task and changing a person in such an obvious way, might not only be bad political marketing, but also sending the wrong signals. I don’t wanna stand in her flip-flops next time she is holding a speech in New York hehe

(Via http://michellemalkin.com)

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