Moveon Obama Ad Finalists
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:
- An Ambassador’s Words of Wisdom (February, 2006)
- Feingold on the D.R. Congo (October, 2007)
- Don’t Vote! (October, 2008)
- My Submission to StopTheSpying.org (January, 2008)
- immigration bill protesters (April, 2006)
