Paris Hilton never had a chance of winning the US Presidency, but she did prevail as the candidate behind CitizenSugar readers' favorite campaign ad of 2008.
Not quite a mandate, Paris' announcement of her faux-candidacy, which came as a response to John McCain's Celebrity ad, received 32 percent of the vote. Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial came in second with 28 percent.
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A South Carolina Ford dealer wants Americans to put the brakes on buying foreign cars, and he's using the radio to accelerate the spread of this message. In a controversial ad the local dealer chastises Toyota customers saying:
All you people that buy all your Toyotas and send that money to Japan, you know, when you don't have a job to make your Toyota car payment, don't come crying to me. All those cars are rice ready.
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We've been soaking in a bathtub full of political ads for so long, my fingers are beyond pruney. Though there's great talk of who has how much money to spend on making the suckers, it's not until you can see the true data behind of the ad campaigns compared side by side that you can get a real fix on it.
Ever the masters of the interactive graphic, the Times has maps that let you pit the groups with money side by side to see how much was spent, and where ads were bought.
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