Where are the ad mascots’ campaign ads?

In the runup to Advertising Week, online voting has now begun to elect two brand icons for enshrinement on the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame. (There’s a parallel election for favorite ad slogans.) The Week’s site jokes, “You’ve watched the debates, heard the campaign promises, and weighed the issues—oh, wait, that’s a different election.” In fact, though, one can’t help feeling that the brand-icon election would be more exciting if it did include political-style campaign ads, particularly of the negative variety.