A collection of Presidential campaign slogans, some well-known even decades later (Eisenhower's I Like Ike, Reagan's It's Morning Again in America), some more obscure (Lincoln's Vote Yourself a Farm), some upbeat and positive (Al Gore's Prosperity and Progress), some not so much (Grover Cleveland's negative slogan against his 1844 opponent Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine)
I have always been a fan of the film Wag the Dog (1997), where the incumbent president, floundering in the polls and facing an impending sex scandal enlists the help of a Hollywood producer to "create" a war. I had no idea, however, that the dull-sounding campaign slogan the president was running under in the movie (Don't Swap Horses in the Middle of the Stream) was originally used during Lincoln's re-election bid while the Civil War raged.
Wikipedia has its own list of political slogans, reaching beyond the US presidency and covering world politics, too.
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