a history of campaign slogans
Apr. 14th, 2011 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacSlide show here.
I knew about "We Polked you in 1844, we shall Pierce you in 1852," and I knew about the desperate attempt to find a rhyme for Henry Clay's running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, but I did not know that when Alf Landon ran for president in 1936 he asked voters to "make it a Landon-slide." Ugh. That's almost as bad as "Joe-mentum."
It does not say what I have sometimes heard rumored, which is that Landon considered as his running mate Styles Bridges, then the Governor of New Hampshire, but rejected him for fear of the slogan, "Landon Bridges falling down."
I knew about "We Polked you in 1844, we shall Pierce you in 1852," and I knew about the desperate attempt to find a rhyme for Henry Clay's running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, but I did not know that when Alf Landon ran for president in 1936 he asked voters to "make it a Landon-slide." Ugh. That's almost as bad as "Joe-mentum."
It does not say what I have sometimes heard rumored, which is that Landon considered as his running mate Styles Bridges, then the Governor of New Hampshire, but rejected him for fear of the slogan, "Landon Bridges falling down."
