Living Room Candidate

The 2008 election was clearly the moving-image event of the year, according to a survey of critics, authors, filmmakers, programmers, and others, published in the Museum's website Moving Image Sour...

Media analyst Evan Tracey has created an original playlist for The Living Room Candidate, with his selection of the most effective ads for Obama and McCain. He also looks at what he calls Obama's "...

The independent group OurCountry PAC, which made several anti-Obama ads during the campaign that invoked his ties to William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Kwame Kilpatrick, has released a post-electi...

Democratic challenger Jim Martin is using Barack Obama in an ad for his runoff election against incumbent Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss. Chambliss is attacked for being out of touch with econo...

Independent and citizen-created video about the election were the most-viewed online videos in the 2008 election. Ari Melber writes about the phenomenon in this article from The Nation, "YouTubing ...

On the morning after the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President, President George W. Bush made these remarks at the White House, acknowledging the coming transfer of power.

The New York Times reports that spending by independent groups on TV ads for this year's presidential election should total about $400 million. The Campaign Finance Institute, a Washington research...

NBA Portland Trailblazer Greg Oden reminds voters that he was an Ohio State basketball star in this Buckeye-state-targeted Web ad for Obama.Greg Oden Vote for Change Web ad for Obama:

The Pennsylvania Republican Party has released two minute-long TV ads reprising some old attack lines against Obama, in a last-minute attempt to help McCain win the Democratic-leaning state. One ad...

The 527 group Let Freedom Ring uses conservative columnist Frank Gaffney to launch a traditional attacks against the Democratic candidate. The claim that the Democrat would cut military spending an...