SFist: Who Worked "Change" and the Arms-Crossed Look Better: Leno or Migden?

aj

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:58:31 -0800

Just vote some sort of write in, Ciaran. Bart Simpson is an old standby.

FNREEDIE

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:53:16 -0800

Could someone please just make Carol Midgen stop mailing me flier every day? How many trees must die for Carol to get elected? The amount of junk mail alone has made me vote for Leno.

Matt415

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:24:19 -0800

My roommate and I got that Carole Migden wedding invite too, with both of our names on it. We're both gay, so I was left to wonder how she had targeted us, heh. Totally tacky. Anyway, I'm totally voting for blue, I mean, for Leno.

mosquito

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:50:20 -0800

I know nothing about either candidate, but I can't help but thing that Migden wants to change California to be 100% Christian with that ad.

pantsgolem

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:25:56 -0800

So who else got that "wedding invitation" mailer from Migden? Tackiest ad ever y/n?

cowsaysmeow

Thu, 29 May 2008 12:20:16 -0800

Leno's, but only by a hair. He appears slightly more natural doing the arm-crossing thing than Midgen here, but his expression says "I'm watching my kid play little league" and not so much being an agent of change. I 3rd icbalaam's observation...

bluecanary

Thu, 29 May 2008 11:32:52 -0800

I always read that crossed arms is a defensive pose, so I cannot understand why either would choose to be photographed that way.

The Angry Young Man

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:59:33 -0800

Neither. They're both stupid and annoying. What kind of change comes from the same ol, same ol these two fools represent? Plus, nice unoriginal campaign slogans. Someone should tell Barry that they're infringing upon his trademark.

Ciaran

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:55:07 -0800

Can anyone tell me how to spoil my ballot on this race without screwing up all my other votes the big piece of paper. Voting in the UK it was easy cos you just scrawl whatever abuse you feel like on the ballot and pop it in the box, but here I'm afraid of getting kicked back by the poll workers when it goes in the scanner.

Akit

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:53:32 -0800

Migden? Ha! She still deserved to be convicted of DUI.

jenniehi

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:48:15 -0800

Leno's got the solar panels in the background. I gotta give him credit for that.

Generic

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:29:34 -0800

icbalaam, you are SO right. Points deducted from Carole for the Hillary-derived coif and Nehru jacket. On the other hand, she's been using that image since way back when Hillary was riding high in the polls, so maybe that was her intention. Points deducted from Leno for the letterman sleeves and JoeNationesque background. But then again, maybe that was his intention, too. Maybe Leno was purposefully trying to blur distinctions with Nation in the minds of North Bay voters during the final stretch.

TeamAwesome

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:23:20 -0800

I always thought carole looked like senator palpatine....

icbalaam

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:15:07 -0800

I've been meaning to bring this up for the past two weeks-- doesn't Midgen look exactly like an older version of Jonathan Lipnicki when he was in "Jerry McGuire". Brock, do us all a favor and post a picture of them side by side for comparison.

paulhogarth

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:01:51 -0800

Of course, the basic difference is that Mark Leno has been talking about "change" long before Barack Obama made it the cool thing to be this election. Meanwhile, Carole Migden was saying "I am the status quo" at their first debate: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4400 Migden seems to think her "experience" makes her the best "agent of change." That didn't work for Hillary Clinton.

Greg

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:49:26 -0800

And here I thought the best choice for change was the Coinstar machine at Safeway... At least they are not using that lame-ass phrase "Agent of Change." http://tinyurl.com/4shodq