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Obama Running Campaign Ads On Video Games In Battleground States
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com ^

Posted on 09/18/2012 5:28:07 PM PDT by lowbridge

President Obama wants gamers in battleground states to vote early while they’re playing Madden football.

According to Ad Week, the Obama campaign had teamed up with Electronic Arts again to run ads on their video games in hotly-contested states leading up to Election Day. The campaign first did this in 2008.

“It was made clear in the last election that reaching consumers through video games makes a significant impact, so it’s no surprise to see this tactic used once again in such a competitive election,” Dave Madden, EA’s senior vice president of global media solutions, told ad week.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012dncstrategy; 2012swingstates; ads; bho2012; obama; sleazy; sourcetitlenoturl; videogames

1 posted on 09/18/2012 5:28:12 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Time to boycott EA Sports.


2 posted on 09/18/2012 5:36:01 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: lowbridge

Dumb. I don’t game, but a political ad would p*** me off if I was trying to play a game.

“I’m Barack Obama, and I approve interrupting your fun.”


3 posted on 09/18/2012 5:37:17 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: lowbridge

Very cleaver. I wished Romney thought of it. I wonder if it is too late for Romney to hit the Amazon Instant Video arena. I guess this is the election where different strategies are going to happen.


4 posted on 09/18/2012 5:38:10 PM PDT by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: lowbridge

There is no limit on how low these commie b*st*rds will stoop.


5 posted on 09/18/2012 5:41:10 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Viennacon
Bad idea. I am so sick of Obama his face and his wife are plastered everywhere. I quit watching tv and reading certain magazines because of his presence.
6 posted on 09/18/2012 6:22:42 PM PDT by funfan
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