This is kind of a fluffy diary. You know the "Democratic Wave" meme has penetrated the public consciousness when you start seeing advertising incorporating it...
So out of habit I went to CNN.com right now (5:20pm Central Time) and as I was looking around I saw the tail end of a flash advertisement that I noted the word "Elephant" on. It was shaped like a campaign button. Curious, I hit refresh and saw the entire thing.
It's an add for the 2007 Acura MDX. The add starts with a standard political looking button, blue on top red on the bottom. Words appear on the button.
"How do you get 7 of these..."
Then a donkey pops onto the button
"...into 1 of these"
the Acura pops into the button.
"Kick the elephants out!"
Then it puts up the standard boilerplate for the vehicle announcing it etc with the Acura on the button.
Kick the elephants out? In favor of Donkeys? On a car add? Is the Dem-wave Pro-Dem attitude at a super-saturation point when advertises start to use it to sell stuff? Has anyone seen this add or anything like it recently? It's not a TV add of course, and maybe it read the cookies I have or something but still, it's not something I expected to see on CNN's homepage.
Weird.
UPDATE: Pointed out in comments there seems to be a Pro-Republican version and a Pro-Democratic version with the position of the animals reversed (i.e. kick out the Donkeys) so I suppose they're taking no chances and trying to appeal to all sides of the political spectrum -- not that the donkeys are in any positions of power in DC to be kicked out of.
UPDATE 2: I screen-capped the Democratic version of the ad here.