As voters in New Hampshire cast ballots, they’re being inundated with advertising that seems to support one candidate or another, but which is actually paid for by “independent” Super PACs, political groups that can raise and spend virtually unlimited amounts of cash on political issues.
Presidential campaign slogans: we’ve come to know them, love them, loathe them, and in some cases, completely forget them. Some slogans, like Warren G. Harding’s “Cox and Cocktails,” sound perplexing in hindsight. Others, like Jimmy Carter’s “Not Just Peanuts” slogan, seem sweetly naïve thirty years later. And then there’s President Obama’s new slogan, simply “Forward.” What does […]