ELECTION MADNESS. First, enter Kaus’s contest (scroll down to the end of the “Pick Your Florida” post). It sounds like it could be much more fun than real life.

Second, Shamed found this amazing depository of campaign ads from 19-199. Click and feel the burn. Favorites include the content-free one where everyone’s singing “I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike”–I mean, this is my exact worst stereotype of the Fifties, and it’s real!–and the response one with the chickadee vamping for Adlai. Also, I don’t remember the election context, but Shamed and I watched the Infamous Willie Horton Ad and didn’t see racism. Like, at all. Also, did you know there was a sequel to the “Daisy” ad? I didn’t. Features girl eating ice cream despite threat of nuclear war. Creepalicious.