US PRES. CAMPAIGN SLOGAN QUIZ
There’s no escaping it – it’s the US Presidential election year. With all the mud-slinging, folks forget that politics can be fun. Let’s face it, at the end of the day, no matter what any candidate might promise: “In our guts, we know they gotta be nuts.”
Here they are: KC’s top 10 US Presidential Campaign Slogans divided into Award Categories. Can you guess whose they were?
- Best Self-Irony: “Not Just Peanuts” (hint: 1976)
- Funniest (in a hindsight-ironic-kind of way): “Kinder, Gentler Nation” (hint: 1988)
- Old MacDonald and John Barry Favorite: “Vote Yourself a Farm” (hint: 1860)
- Best Alliteration and Bar Name: “Cox and Cocktails” (hint: 1920 – opponent’s name was Cox and Cox was opposed to Prohibition)
- Best All-Around: “A Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in Every Garage” (hint: 1928)
- Most Modest: “He’s Making us Proud Again” (hint: 1976)
- Straight to the Chase: “Reannexation of Texas and Reoccupation of Oregon” (hint: 1844)
- Best Rhyme: “Keep the Ass off the White House Grass” (hint: 1944)
- Katie Holmes’ Old Time Favorite Perhaps?: “In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts” in answer to the opponent’s slogan: “In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right” (hint: 1964)
- Clara Peller As Slogan Writer?: “Where’s the Beef?” (hint: 1984)
- BONUS: Ladies’ Most Favorite Campaign Button: “No Man is Good Three Times”
My cat, Lil, gives her two cents about online political discussions.
ANSWER KEY:
- Jimmy Carter
- George H.W. Bush
- Abraham Lincoln
- William G. Harding
- Herbert Hoover
- Gerald Ford
- James K. Polk
- Dewey Bricker
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Walter Mondale
- Anti-FDR Campaign
