Moveon.org placed an open call for 30-second ad spots supporting Obama’s run for the presidency, soliciting over 1000 entries from across the country. They then created an Am-I-Hot-or-Not-style interface to allow people to jump in an vote for handfuls of spots at time. After nearly 5 million votes, the pool has been narrowed to 15 finalists. This was crowdsourcing at its best.

Here are two of my favorites:

I’m not sure why the cheesy all-American nature of these appeals to me. Maybe because I know it will appeal to those whose minds can still be changed.

Related Posts:

• Obama: So Close, So Far (January, 2008)
• Mudslinging (March, 2008)
• The Lobbying vs. the Lobbyist (April, 2008)
• “Bigotry has always made exceptions” (June, 2007)
• Dennis Kucinich (May, 2007)

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