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Even the Great Pumpkin Is Voting Nixon-Agnew

Even the Great Pumpkin Is Voting Nixon-Agnew
Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, running in the 1968 U.S. presidential election as the Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates, used the popularity of cartoonist Charles Shultz's animated television special, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (first broadcast in 1966), to suggest that even the Great Pumpkin--the Halloween equivalent of Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny--would cast a vote for them.

Campaign workers evidently canvassed neighborhoods and placed pumpkin doorknob hangers like this one on the front doors of potential voters. Since the election that year was on November 5, the pumpkins served as a holiday-themed message at the end of October to remind voters to go to the polls.

The Great Pumpkin was looking out for Nixon and Agnew, and they won the election.

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 arts enthusiast
arts enthusiast
This is incredible! Is does make me wonder who Charles Schultz voted for? In this era a huge lawsuit would have been filed.
11 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to arts enthusiast
It is amazing! I haven't been able to uncover anything about Schultz's political leanings or whether there was any reaction from him or others regarding the campaign's use of the Great Pumpkin.
11 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
My. Nixon-Agnew. (Who's Agnew??) Hadn't thought about that campaign in _years_. And, not so many years later, both left office in disgrace--
10 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to slgwv club
Yes, it's ironic to think that the same pair who gave us Watergate and tax fraud also left behind the Great Pumpkin for our amusement all these years later! 8-)
10 years ago.

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