Huffington Flexes Calif. Ad Muscle

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LOS ANGELES The first commercial from California gubernatorial hopeful and nationally syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington is set to break tonight.

The spot, “Think Outside the Box,” shows a mostly student-aged crowd laden with backpacks converging on a huge white, slotted ballot box, floating just above the ground, much like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. As the sound of a choir swells in the background, a Huffington voiceover implores the 13 million California voters who didn’t participate in the last election, many of whom are college students, to go to the polls.

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