What to Do With $458 Million+, Part 1,684

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Via GigaOm:

Last week we noted unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise. Today we’re able to report that it is, in fact, an official advertisement placed by the senator’s campaign team.

“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, told me via email, noting that EA regularly allows ad placements in their online games. “Like most television, radio and print outlets, we accept advertising from credible political candidates,” she continued. “Like political spots on the television networks, these ads do not reflect the political policies of EA or the opinions of its development teams.”

No word on if he'll be advertising on Fallout 3.

Also, Obama has his own channel on the DISH Network:

The satellite channel is the latest of these marginal gambits: Three readers from different parts of the country email that Channel 073-00 on the Dish Network is now labeled OBAMA. ("What is up with Sen. Obama having his own channel?" asks a St. Louis reader.) The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over.

 

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That explains it...

That explains the "More Info" that I saw last week during an Obama commercial.  I think the Dish TV could be a good avenue for presenting more information.

Personally, I'd have produced an hour long info-mercial, or a couple of 1/2 hour long segments expanding on different parts of policy and biography.

Obama just needs to start producing some

prime-time informercials a la '92, complete with phony charts and graphs.

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