Set to a 50 year-old Simon & Garfunkel song, Bernie Sanders’ new campaign ad aims squarely at the heartland. Via Politico:
The ad features the Simon and Garfunkel staple playing over footage of quotidian scenes of Americana: windmills blowing across a wintry landscape, tugboats sitting on a dock, farmers at work, city-dwellers in cafés, a father and daughter walking through a suburban-looking neighborhood, a man tossing bales of hay. The video then cuts to images of Sanders supporters of all stripes interacting with and listening to the democratic socialist candidate at his events interspersed with more footage of everyday American life. “They’ve all come to look for America,” Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sing as the word “AMERICA” appears on the screen, set over the image of an outdoor Sanders gathering.
The ad debuts tomorrow in Iowa.