Barack Obama's Multi-Million Dollar Infomercial

Politics | Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:58:10 pm PDT

It’s the biggest ad buy in presidential campaign history, and it begins at 8pm on almost every channel in the universe. You already know what The One is going to say; we all do. Don’t expect any surprises.

We’re going to try to count the number of times the words “hope” and “change” are spoken or printed on screen. It may be impossible to keep up. A drinking game would be a bad idea; everyone would be under the table in the first five minutes.