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ADVERTISING FOR...WHAT?

Posted by Stephanie S. May 18, 2008

During Barack Obama’s primary concession speech April 22 in Evansville, IN, it looked like Abercrombie and Fitch had paid for advertising placement – for the entire time he was on camera, were three young men with Abercrombie shirts seated directly behind Obama. And if you’ve seen Abercrombie shirts, you know those are some large, hard-to-miss logos.

But the crazy part is those guys were paid to sit there – just not by A&F. Obama’s people put them there to get young people excited about him as a candidate. He lost to Hillary Clinton by a 10-point margin. The retail chain has proved to be influential over the years (just check sales numbers). Maybe this move will inspire the youngins to vote, if not for Obama, just vote, this year?

Tags: barack_obama, abercrombie_and_fitch, democratic_candidate

Comments

clar_iss_a pretty girl 19 May 08 at 06:05AM

interesting, and yet very smart!

alx 19 May 08 at 03:07PM in response to: clar_iss_a pretty girl

"Concession speech in Indiana"

Obama never gave a concession speech in IN, if anything he gave a speech in NC that night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-oMjmwiUA

"He lost to Hillary Clinton by a 10-point margin."

Eh? In Indiana?

Final results:

Clinton: 50.7%
Obama: 49.3%

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/IN.html

Stephanie S. 20 May 08 at 09:13AM

You?re right alx, my bad ? Obama did not give a primary concession speech as stated above, he just gave a speech in Evansville, IN, and he did not lose to Hillary by a 10 point margin as we originally stated and as was stated in Women?s Wear Daily. Maybe the use of A&F tees worked for Obama after all...

alx 20 May 08 at 09:27AM

My beans are cool.