# What's Your Campaign Theme Song?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 20, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752 "2007-06-20T18:47:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/1 "2007-06-20T18:47:00Z")
Hillary Clinton has picked some Celine Dion song I’ve never heard of (though I’m told it was written as a jingle for Air Canada) for her campaign. Personally, I think that choice sucks (and it’s one more easy way for me to bash Hillary Clinton.) Anyway, if I was running for office, I think I’d like to come in to “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC. Just the opening (hey, it works for closers and 3rd downs.) Or maybe “For Those About to Rock”. That would work pretty good as well.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/2 "2007-06-20T20:21:47Z")
I guess it would have to be “Born to Run”. And then after I win, “The Price You Pay”–tax and spend, baby, tax and spend.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/3 "2007-06-20T20:26:49Z")
I might as well anticipate my electoral success and just make “Another One Bites The Dust” my song from the start.
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### Author:  [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/4 "2007-06-20T23:24:25Z")
Roll With It
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/5 "2007-06-20T23:30:03Z")
If I got elected, “Under My Thumb”.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/6 "2007-06-21T02:13:59Z")
[Cruel](http://caffeine-headache.net/blog3/2006/09/tori_amos.html) by Tori Amos 😉
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/7 "2007-06-21T02:41:48Z")
Probably Alice Cooper’s **“No More Mr. Nice Guy”** , of course, if i wanted to mess with people’s heads, maybe Barnes and Barnes’s **“Fish Heads”** would work
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### Author:  [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/8 "2007-06-21T15:17:09Z")
Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy”
_I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene.
And I’m neither left or right
I’m just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A._
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/9 "2007-06-21T16:46:19Z")
“We Built This City”.
I’d SO fucking win.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/10 "2007-06-21T17:12:59Z")
“Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger.
Good thing I’m not running for anything, huh?
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/11 "2007-06-21T18:31:43Z")
Reconsidering: “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”. Or “I’m Easy” (in a politically-corruptable kind of way).
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/12 "2007-06-21T19:13:00Z")
[QUOTE=asterion]
Hillary Clinton has picked some Celine Dion song I’ve never heard of (though I’m told it was written as a jingle for Air Canada) for her campaign. Personally, I think that choice sucks (and it’s one more easy way for me to bash Hillary Clinton.) Anyway, if I was running for office, I think I’d like to come in to “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC. Just the opening (hey, it works for closers and 3rd downs.) Or maybe “For Those About to Rock”. That would work pretty good as well.
[/QUOTE]
As God is my witness, I opened this thread intending to say “Hell’s Bells.”
Since you took it, I’ll go with “Big Time” by Peter Gabriel.
When I run for re-election, however, it’ll be “Back in Black.”
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### Author:  [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/13 "2007-06-21T19:40:59Z")
Ry Cooder’s “How can a poor man stand such times and live.”
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/14 "2007-06-21T20:34:55Z")
Skid Row’s _Get The Fuck Out_. Or am I trying to win?
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/15 "2007-06-21T20:37:18Z")
I think \*Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life \* would be pretty great.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/16 "2007-06-21T20:49:24Z")
**SAMPIRO FOR PRESIDENT** campaign song:
James Taylor’s _You Got a Friend_
**SAMPIRO FOR LIFETIME BENEVOLENT OLIGARCH** campaign song (election unopposed):
\*Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you\*
## The National Anthem would be changed to _How Great Thou Art_, though with slight modification of the lyrics to include my name several times.
Supposedly Barney Frank was considering running but _God Save the Queen_ is still under copyright.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/17 "2007-06-21T21:33:11Z")
What about “You’re the Best” by none other than the bard, Joe Esposito?
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### Author:  [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/18 "2007-06-21T21:43:51Z")
may we make a second choice? “This land is your land” by Woody Guthrie
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### Author:  [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-campaign-theme-song/408752/19 "2007-06-21T21:46:38Z")
Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”
Works great for a wedding dance too.