Brian Gongol

The President-elect's election campaign (and, perhaps, 2012 re-election campaign) is trying to help the Democratic National Committee pay off $15 million in debt by selling Obama-branded coffee mugs. The success of the Obama brand represents a truly remarkable event in the history of marketing. Related: It should tell us at least a little bit about the role of image in politics that the Boston Globe actually bothered to create a video about Mitt Romney's hair and others created "Proposition 8: The Musical".

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As silly as it might sound on the surface, it's probably not a bad idea to do something cheap and simple to give the inebriated something to fixate upon when they leave the bars

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