By and large, Minnesotans miss much of the television advertising from presidential campaigns that blanket the battleground states every four years (possibly a blessing in disguise that may be eroding now that the state has become increasingly purple.

Now, however, courtesy of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, more than a half-century’s worth of those TV ads is at any political junkie’s fingertips. The museum has archived hundreds of them on its web site, all the way back to the first ads broadcast in 1952. It includes everything from Willie Horton in 1988 to John Kerry’s windsurfing in 2004. If you’re politically inclined, it’s irresistable.

(Hat tip: New York Times)

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