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Two Election Posters We Love: Obama Changes Race For Halloween

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Election day is less than 24 hours away and this Halloween weekend, we ran into two different election posters that seek to get your vote by dressing the candidates up in a different skin color. The first, sent to us by a reader and designed by Tor Myhren who is Chief Creative Officer for Grey Advertising in New York, asks you to imagine what the issues would be if Obama were white and John McCain were black. The second, which we found posted on Houston street in Manhattan last night, imagines Obama as a cholo and offers him as the best candidate for “El Presidenté” (with an inappropriate accent mark. Whoops.) We did a little googling and found out it was designed by a hair stylist named David Cordova in Los Angeles. He said in an interview that his motivation was getting hispanics to vote for Obama. Both are traffic stopping to be sure. Check them out after the jump and be sure to vote tomorrow if you haven’t already.

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Here’s the Obama cholo poster in color, but not very big.

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Obama Cholo [Planetjan]

Comments

What a brilliant way of keeping voters in this time of last minute campaign nonsense focused on the ISSUES rather than the BS - thank you Grey NYC

Funny, but Obama’s almost that white and almost that brown anyway. He just fits in anywhere. That’s why he’s the perfect man to represent this great country. Except for James. He’s an arsehole.

Obama looks good as a cholo!

@la roncha: Almost as good as me

@ Evan.. ‘..this great country’ ?

‘arsehole’ is an English term, he’s not running for Prime Minister you know!

hay! thanks for posting the obama cholo !!!for obama… thanks again
david cordova
angeleno hairdresser

@CJ: Yes, and America is a wonderful mixture of cultures from around the globe where your right to say arsehole is protected by the first amendment.

Love the Tibor Kalman influence on the black/white poster.

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