{"id":3606,"date":"2008-11-01T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T17:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2008-11-01T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T17:14:58","slug":"barack-obamas-30-minute-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/01\/barack-obamas-30-minute-campaign-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama&#8217;s 30 Minute Campaign Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GtREqAmLsoA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GtREqAmLsoA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is the 30 minute campaign ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/index.php\">Barack Obama<\/a> that ran on most US TV networks last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <strong>Amercian Stories, American Solutions<\/strong>, it was directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0346550\/\">Davis Guggenheim<\/a>, who also made the Al Gore documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Inconvenient_Truth\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was simulcast on\u00a0<a title=\"NBC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBC\">NBC<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"CBS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBS\">CBS<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Fox\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fox\">Fox<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Univision\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Univision\">Univision<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"MSNBC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MSNBC\">MSNBC<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"BET\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BET\">BET<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"TV One (Radio One)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TV_One_(Radio_One)\">TV One<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Fox <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/15\/fox-may-adjust-world-seri_n_134975.html\">even asked for Game Six<\/a> of the\u00a0<a title=\"2008 World Series\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_World_Series\">2008 World Series<\/a>\u00a0to be delayed by 15 minutes in order to show it.<\/p>\n<p>The ad got just over 30 million viewers across all the networks on which it aired and currently has\u00a01,542,234 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GtREqAmLsoA\">views on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,_2008#Media_campaign\">Find out more about the Obama Campaign at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0346550\/\">Davis Guggenheim<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 30 minute campaign ad for Barack Obama that ran on most US TV networks last Wednesday. Entitled Amercian Stories, American Solutions, it was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also made the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth. It was simulcast on\u00a0NBC,\u00a0CBS,\u00a0Fox,\u00a0Univision,\u00a0MSNBC,\u00a0BET\u00a0and\u00a0TV One\u00a0and\u00a0Fox even asked for Game Six of the\u00a02008 World Series\u00a0to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[114,628,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}