And if you want to compare them to ads of years past, check out the The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials - 1952-2004.

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Those like me who get a clearer sense of a person's character by what they write than by their visage in a 30-second video loop, don't need tv ads to form our votes. Might watch them speak at length or debate, and if it was shown live, go out of the way to see it. Is this uninformed?

If writing in questions and getting back politician-written replies worked for more people, a majority, then TV political ads could end. It'd be cheaper to campaign, too. Before tV, more people voted. I wonder if their votes were less carefully considered.

If Tv's paid political advertising did go the way Tv's paid tobacco advertising went -- banned as unhealthy and addicting, then an archive of oldies becomes like a museum where people could pay admission and vote for their favorite ad.

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