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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 23 Feb 2024 4:33 p.m. PST |
"Electoral graffiti are one of the most common types found on the streets and walls of Pompeii. There are more than 1500 documented examples of political campaign electioneering and slogans painted on the walls of Pompeii. Politicians running for office would hire professional graffiti writers to publicize their names, virtues, campaign promises and endorsements by well-known individuals and professional associations (bakers, goldsmiths, mystery cult members, etc.). They even did negative campaigning via graffiti, claiming an opponent was supported by the drunkards and thieves association, for example. The political graffiti of Pompeii are so extensive that historians have been able to trace which candidates ran for which office in which elections, who endorsed them, who opposed them, what their platforms were; the real meat-and-potatoes of local electoral politics in a 1st century Roman city…"
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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 27 Feb 2024 3:19 p.m. PST |
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