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"We're coming up on re-election day..."
Arcadia was a Duran Duran splinter group that was active around the time our big local stations seemed to eschew Duran Duran - even their biggest hits. Arcadia's biggest single - "Election Day" - peaked way up at #6 on the Hot 100, but if we go by airplay on major local stations, it just doesn't seem like a #6. David Bowie received similar treatment, as he seemed to be largely confined to smaller stations for a while.
What the hell is "re-election day"? I'm old enough to remember when we had an election day. But I guess now it's re-election day, because incumbent parties file frivolous lawsuits against their opponents to knock them off the ballot, or it's like my area where the parties make backroom deals not to challenge elected officials. But now it's not just incumbents who run unopposed. They'll let one party nominate its worst newcomer and go unchallenged in November. That doesn't always work out, because there have been a few times when a party miraculously didn't pick its worst candidate, but the goal is to have the absolute worst "leaders" we can dredge up.
The "Election Day" video has a scene that is strikingly similar to a later advertising campaign. Notice the faces in the wall at 34 seconds into the above video. That shot is like the "Halls of medicine" ads for Halls cough drops in the early 1990s...
When I was in college, someone gagged on some food while walking down the hall, and somebody likened it to those Halls ads.
Every little thing the gag reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark!