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Mitt Romney Just Margaret Thatchered Barack Obama
Dave Weigel at Slate came across an interesting online campaign ad from Romney. Weigel found the ad on a different website, and we found the same campaign featured prominently on Romney’s official site:
Image: http://www.mittromney.com/
Anglophiles out there will probably recognize the image as the famous Saatchi and Saatchi-created ad that helped Thatcher win an election against the socialist Labour government in 1979:
Weigel later got an acknowledgment from the Romney camp that the allusion was intentional:
“The unemployment rate in England was lower than today in US,” says [Romney adman
Article source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-thatcher-campaign-ad-2011-6
Mitt Romney Just Margaret Thatchered Barack Obama
Dave Weigel at Slate came across an interesting online campaign ad from Romney. Weigel found the ad on a different website, and we found the same campaign featured prominently on Romney’s official site:
Image: http://www.mittromney.com/
Anglophiles out there will probably recognize the image as the famous Saatchi and Saatchi-created ad that helped Thatcher win an election against the socialist Labour government in 1979:
Weigel later got an acknowledgment from the Romney camp that the allusion was intentional:
“The unemployment rate in England was lower than today in US,” says [Romney adman
Article source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-thatcher-campaign-ad-2011-6
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