{"id":2881,"date":"2011-03-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:30:00","slug":"ad-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2881","title":{"rendered":"Ad Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last election, I stuck up a slew of polls asking readers here to rate commercials released throughout the campaign. For those wanting a nostalgic trip down memory lane, the highest rated commercials can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/election-08-ad-watch-here-come-our.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since we may very well be into a campaign in a mater of <strike>weeks<\/strike> days, it&#8217;s time to play ad wizzard yet again. So I invite everyone here to rate the recent round of pre-election ads. Use whatever criteria you want to judge what makes a &#8220;good&#8221; ad but, remember, the objective of these commercials is to move votes towards the party running them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NDP: <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/and-so-it-begins.html\">Backing Down And Loving It<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4umO5GBAiVM?fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vote.php\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"jjlphraz\"><\/p>\n<table align=center style=\"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt\" width=304 border=1>\n<tr>\n<th align=center>How would you grade this ad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='1'> A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='2'> B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='3'> C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='4'> D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='5'> F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center><input type='submit' value='  Vote !  '><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center style='font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/jjlphrazsr.html\">See Results<\/a><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<p><strong>Conservatives: <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/and-so-it-begins.html\">The Land is Strong<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"320\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klerPS3-Gi8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vote.php\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"zkqjchdi\"><\/p>\n<table align=center style=\"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt\" width=304 border=1>\n<tr>\n<th align=center>How would you grade this ad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='1'> A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='2'> B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='3'> C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='4'> D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='5'> F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center><input type='submit' value='  Vote !  '><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center style='font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/zkqjchdisr.html\">See Results<\/a><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<p><strong>Conservatives: <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/and-so-it-begins.html\">Tax Attack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gO4uqRAR39E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vote.php\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"waeknfnw\"><\/p>\n<table align=center style=\"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt\" width=304 border=1>\n<tr>\n<th align=center>How would you grade this ad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='1'> A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='2'> B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='3'> C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='4'> D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='5'> F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center><input type='submit' value='  Vote !  '><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center style='font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/waeknfnwsr.html\">See Results<\/a><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<p><strong>Greens: Meta Attack Ad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j-GekKKNUTU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vote.php\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"vgljvmku\"><\/p>\n<table align=center style=\"font-family:Tahoma; font-size:12pt\" width=304 border=1>\n<tr>\n<th align=center>How would you grade this ad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='1'> A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='2'> B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='3'> C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='4'> D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><input type='radio' name='vote' value='5'> F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center><input type='submit' value='  Vote !  '><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=center style='font-family:Tahoma; font-size:10pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourfreepoll.com\/vgljvmkusr.html\">See Results<\/a><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last election, I stuck up a slew of polls asking readers here to rate commercials released throughout the campaign. For those wanting a nostalgic trip down memory lane, the highest rated commercials can be seen here. Since we may very well be into a campaign in a mater of weeks days, it&#8217;s time to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}