About this blog A blog dedicated to the examination of
communications in election campaigns, with a focus on posters
Tagged as “election” Saturday, September 22, 2012 Poster for
Tuxedo Stan, a cat running as a write-in candidate for Mayor of
Halifax, Canada, under the banner of the Tuxedo Party. According
to its Facebook page, "The Tuxedo Party is a political movement
aimed to improve the welfare of felines in HRM [Halifax Regional
Municipality] 'because neglect isn't working'." Click here for
more on the campaign. The Tuxedo Party's Facebook page has more
than 4,800 "Likes" as of today. Saturday, April 30, 2011 The
1864 U.S. presidential election campaign—which was held the year
after Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg—was an important one.
As was the case in 1860, the North was divided. Judging by the
dominant themes in campaign broadsides, this time the conflict
was about the emancipation of the slaves, the prosecution of the
Civil War, and the way to deal with the Confederate states.
Abraham Lincoln was