The best political protest propaganda in the 2009 November election was “No Third Terms, Voter for Burns”, a poster that played on Shepard Fairey’s Obama “Hope” poster and the anger of New York voters about Bloomberg’s ungracious collusion with the city council to overturn voter-approved term limits.
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Best 2009 election protest propaganda
Posted on07 November 2009.
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