Obama's Two For Tuesday

We are just days away of yet another pivotal day at the poles as North Carolina and Indiana are having their Democratic Primaries this Tuesday. With so much on the line Obama's campaign has announced that it will be playing two minute advertisements primarily the day before both of there primaries, but recently tonight they have come out with the ads and they are on YouTube already.

This advertisement has been said to Obama's "closing statement" for North Carolina and Indiana explicitly explaining to the citizens of these two states what he is about. There is also a portion of the advertisement that touches on Hillary Clinton's newly proposed tax holiday and the implications of how it is basically an awful idea that would only have short term effects.

Indiana Ad


North Carolina Ad


His main message seems to be that he is showing how he connects with most every citizen that lives in both of these states. I don't like however that Obama uses the same clips for both North Carolina and Indiana even though he targets each state individually. I don't think that Indian citizens would be happy if they saw a clip in their ad that was actually a North Carolina farm or town.

Okay so I might be a little overanalyzing this commercial but here are a few things that I found very interesting:

1. At 0:16 into the North Carolina ad there is a person in the audience with an Indiana Hoosiers shirt on.
2. At 0:38 into the Indiana ad there is a University of Indiana banner while in the North Carolina ad at 0:38 it is the same speech but they leave out the clip of the banner.
3. Also the water tower at 0:31 in both ads is from Granville, but the interesting thing is that there is only a Granville in North Carolina.


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and I hope everyone has a great end of the year and good luck on finals.