The Future is Now: Kentucky GOP Sends Out Holographic Campaign Mailer
Behold! The future of political mailers! Via the Kentucky Republican Party, a holographic card that flips back and forth between an image of President Obama and the word "hope" and Democratic Senate candidate Alison Grimes and the word "nope."
Grimes' GOP opponent, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has spent much of the campaign attempting to connect Grimes to President Obama, who is deeply unpopular in Kentucky.
Grimes has not exactly embraced the connection herself, going so far as to refuse to answer repeated questions about whether she voted for President Obama in 2012 and 2008.
Here's a video of the hologram, which is reportedly being mailed to hundreds of thousands of addresses in Kentucky.
Anyway, looks like campaign mailers have finally caught up to gimmicky early-90s comic-book covers. At long last.
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Help us Obi-wan McConnell. You’re our only hope. And change.
Lenticular image campaign materials are the future? God Damn, Suderman. Did you grow up in a dark cave?
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Yes, they’re also call xographs.
Is a holographic Tupac going to share the stage with McConnell?
What do you think of marry me so far?
Dippin’ Dots; The Ice Cream of the Future!! …for teh past 20 fuckin years
I got 26 election flyers in the mail yesterday and none had anything fun like that on them. Apparently every candidate running is a dangerous extremist who wants to destroy America.
Apparently every candidate running is a dangerous extremist who wants to destroy America.
I could agree with that.
Extremists, no. They’re yawn-inducing milquetoasts who want to destroy the country.
Extreme narcissists.
I wish it were true.
Here in NH we have gotten some interesting people in the state legislature here and there thanks in part to the Free State people. But for national offices and governor both Democrats and Republicans tend to run very boring centrist types, so it is really funny to see them trying to portray each other as extreme or radical.
“Scratch ‘n sniff” is *really* where it’s at.
That’s a double image lenticular which is about a 100 year old technology, at this point.
The caption on the Grimes image should be Dope not nope.
I keep getting nonholographic e-mails from Charlie Crist, who is apparently spamming every lawyer in Florida. Which is no surprise, since his sole reason for running is to try to make tort law less restrictive to frivolous suits, I’m sure.
In any case, Charlie, you can stop e-mailing me. I already voted, and you lost.