Herman Cain "Smoking" Ad



If anyone hasn't seen the GOP Candidate, Herman Cain's, advertisment, which I am sure everyone has, but feel free to watch it. This ad has been all over the news media for about a week, so I figured I would blog about my response to this ad and what the media has been saying.

First I will give you a rundown of the ad. It shows Mark Block who is the chief of staff for Herman Cain and the chief operating officer of Friends of Herman Cain. Friends of Herman Cain is the organization that supports Cain. He says "I believe Herman Cain will put the United back in the United States of America." The he also states "We have ran a campain like nobody has ever seen, but then again nobody has ever seen a candidate like Herman Cain." The last thing Mark Block says is "Together we can take this county back." The the I am America song comes on and show Mark Block smoking. The last that is shown Herman Cain smiling.

My analysis of this ad is that it is a fairly good ad. You hardly ever see a chief of staff in an ad for a candidate which makes it seem like he is a down to earth person. This also relates to one of his quotes later on in which he says that nobody has seen a campaign ran like this. The he states Cain will put United back in the USA. To me that means that he thinks the country is divided and that Cain can reunite the country. According to Block's last statement he thinks that the country needs to be taken back. That could mean a variety of things; he might think that democrats have taken over our country or socialists have taken over our county. Regardless, I think this needed to be explained a little better.

The part that caused all of the contraversy is the part where Mark Block is seen smoking. This part was five seconds of the entire ad, which lasts fifty-six seconds. This smoking part was not even ten percent of the add but has caused all of this contraversy. Regardless, my stance on the smoking part is that the Herman Cain campaign did this to show that Mark Block was a regurlar american. The ad may have also been to cause contraversy, so that he would get free advertising. As many people know the Cain campaign does not or did not have very much money when starting off. This ad was not shown on tv or anything it was merely posted on Cain's website. He may have also done this to try to catch the attention of smokers, since 1 out of 5 people smoke according to a recent poll. Since smoking has been censored this ad may resonate with smokers who think that government should not censor smoking. Just something to think about.

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