Below
is a sample list of campaign slogans from past US Presidential
Campaigns:
1840 William Henry Harrison–" Tippecanoe
and Tyler Too" (negative to opponent)
1844 James K. Polk — "Reannexation
of Texas and reoccupation of Oregon" (defining a goal)
1856 John C. Fremont — "Free Soil,
Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men, and Fremont" (a play
on the candidate's name)
1864 Abraham Lincoln — "Don't swap
horses in the middle of the stream" (plea to consistency
and leadership)
1884 Grover Cleveland — "Blaine,
Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine" (negative
to opponent)
1884 James Blaine— "Ma, Ma, Where’s
my Pa, Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha" (negative
to opponent)
1888 Benjamin Harrison — "Rejuvenated
Republicanism" (alliterative)
1896 William McKinley — "Patriotism,
Protection, and Prosperity" (alliterative)
1900 William McKinley — "A Full
Dinner Pail" (campaign promise)
1916 Woodrow Wilson — "He kept us
out of war" (reputation)
1924 Calvin Coolidge — "Keep cool
with Coolidge" (play on name)
1928 Herbert Hoover — "A chicken
in every pot and a car in every garage" (campaign promise)
1952 Dwight Eisenhower — "I Like
Ike" (rhyme)
