MCO 4301: Communication Law & Ethics

On YouTube you can find many political ad videos that may have appeared on television. These ads cover the past and present.

This guide from Cornell University Library contains links to many archives of ads.

Google Images is a search service owned by Google and introduced on July 12, 2001, that allows users to search the Web for image content.[1] The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. When Google performs a search, it displays not only images, but allows you to narrow your search further by displaying subtopics at the top of the page that you can click on.

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From the Bing Search engine, this page presents newspaper political ads, presented like you would see in Google images.

This pages contains 43 slides of political ads that appeared in the Fort Lauderdale News and South Florida Sun Sentinel from 1928 to 1988.

On Yahoo Images there are many political ads that you can view, and evaluate. Just type in "political ads" and a date to see political ads from that date.

With roots going back to Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson's 1952 contest, politics and TV advertising are inextricably linked in the modern era. Here are several of the best political ads from 1952 through about 1988.

iSpot is purpose-built to measure the performance of every ad aired on television with digital-like precision and granularity in real time. Go to Politics & Elections TV Commercials on this site to see political commercials.

This is a lesson plan that presents 10 Presidential television political ads from 1952 to 2008. The article contains the actual videos of the ads.

In a media-saturated environment in which news, opinions, and entertainment surround us all day on our television sets, computers, and cell phones, the television commercial remains the one area where presidential candidates have complete control over their images. Television commercials use all the tools of fiction filmmaking, including script, visuals, editing, and performance, to distill a candidate's major campaign themes into a few powerful images.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2020 is an online exhibition presenting more than 300 television commercials from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads aired.

From LBJ’s "Daisy" to Reagan’s "Morning in America," the stories behind the most memorable political ads to ever hit the airwaves.

Nine YouTube videos that show various ads from the 2022 midterm elections.

The good, the bad, and the goofy of the 2020 presidential ads, ranked.

From the Bing Search engine, this page presents magazine political ads, presented like you would see in Google images.