are in a fight for the finish, look at the map. you see the big names are hitting the trail in the final days. it tells you what you need to know about the race in states where frankly every single vote will count. and there is a remarkable ad we have to show you that claims to know what god wants. and on the 8th day god looked down on his planned paradise and said i need a protector so god made a fighter. oh my god. we are going to talk about that. i hope so. plus, the politics of pot, recreational marijuana is on the ballot in five states. most of them conservative red states. finally an issue that s bringing americans together getting high. [ laughter ] well, when you go low, they go high. i had to. i don t know why. it kalcame out as a whole thing fantastic. let s bring our experts on that. we have cnn political commentator scott jennings and keith and mark mckinnon. gent gentlemen, great to have you. i do live at 10,000 feet so i know something about
is problematic. laura, your thoughts? first of all, this is probably a resinating ad is because it was the 2014 rams truck ad where they played off of paul farmer and paul harvey so he knows what he s doing. it was successful and this article of symbolic pickup trucks and connecting the dots. he was obviously trying to appeal and this is an ad for a presidential run and the polls say something different but at the end of the day, i mean, it does take as they say cahones to be the anoinlteted one. this might be where you start. who knows. ask my panel here all about
Advertisers that spend millions of dollars on the Super Bowl are trying to avoid what the Ram truck company did with a Martin Luther King speech or what Groupon.
rhymes and miss elliot. if you want that, wonderful. but recognize he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. now dodge got swift criticism online for using a martin luther king jr. speech in a truck ad. but the manager of the king estate said the overall message of the ad embodied king s message of greatness being achieved by serving others. hm. well, super bowl weekend is not complete without the chicken wings. they are staple food of any good party. this year the national chicken council predicted americans would eat 1.35 billion wings during super bowl weekend. that s up 20 million from last year. if laid end to end, that s enough wings to circle the earth three times. that s incredible. you like the chicken wings? no, actually. there s never enough meat on
ready to go this weekend. in terms of the other thing that people love to watch for, the ads. some did really well. and there was one that definitely fell flat. exactly. the ratings, early ratings suggest this was a huge game, 108 million viewers likely tuning in for the ads and the game. the alexa amazon ad, this is the jeff bezos ad with all those celebrities, playing with alexa, auditioning, this was the number one ad in the usa today ad meter poll overnight. other top ads, the dirty dancing spot featuring the giants. there were not a lot of hugely sensational or shocking ads. just a lot of good old-fashioned humor and comfort food ads. the one that fell flat was for dodge rams. the truck ad, using an mlk sermon in order to sell trucks. a lot of folks thought it was distasteful. heard from the mlk center about it as well. that s the morning after controversy, the mlk ad. it is telling in a world where as more options of tv viewing