The Elect Nobody Campaign

Elect Nobody!

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Jumping directly to the presidency, Nobody campaign parodies appeared widely in the 1960s. My first brush was with Wavy Gravy's 1976 campaign. This living relic appeared during the 1984 campaign.

Mr. Romney said "free ice cream!"

Wavy Gravy wearing a red clown nose, sunglasses, and a straw hat, holding an ice cream cone

Photo by Sarah Vasquez for The Accent, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.

Parody campaigns let off steam. Nobody came to bottle steam and direct it.