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Below you will find a search engine that will allow you to query and download individual ads. We suggest you use this to start exploring the database. If you like to download all the ads in an individual year, visit the Harvard Dataverse for this project:
The complete high-definition non-watermarked dataset is also available here:
To better learn what ads are in our database, you can use the below search tool. Enter search terms below and select specific years and candidates. Results will be automatically sorted by relevancy. Click on the thumbnail to watch the ad and read a summary of the ad. Unwatermarked versions of the ads can be found on Harvard's Dataverse. Use the election year, candidate, and identifier to find the ad in the project's Dataverse. A transcript excerpt is included for your convenience.
