The voiceover guy sounds like a mixture of Liam Neeson and Clint Eastwood.
Overall objectively speaking it seemed quite dated.
Pessimism doesn't sell nearly as well as optimism....
Here is the classic Reagan "Morning in America" ad, which many Political Scientists consider to be the key point where Reagan started to bury Mondale in national poll numbers in '84.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fy-uhxiXcEGranted, this was a Presidential Reelection campaign, with some significant overall incumbent advantages, considering the economic recovery from "Stagflation" and the "Reagan Recession".
Still, regardless of political parties sometimes using optimism to trumps pessimism, this could well be the first Presidential Election since '88, where the political torch is passed to the "New Generation" after a two-term Presidency from one of the two major political parties.
