Robin Robinson strips in Bucks mail-in voting ad

Robin Robinson dressed up as a heated dog, told muddy jokes at the grocery store, swung her hips and threw a french fry on her husband’s grave on camera to gain nearly 2 million online followers. But recently she had a first: she posed for the camera only in Spanx.

In Vote for Naked Bucks County video In the ad, Robinson can be seen wearing pearl earrings, matching glowing red lipstick and matching bold hexagonal glasses. Off-camera, you can see her nude shapewear, which makes it look like she’s just wearing a birthday suit. She reaches into the fridge with her arms exposed, surrounded by crucial kitchen appliances and he tells the camera with a smile, “There is no reason to dress up to vote this year. You can vote naked.”

The ad, paid for by the Turn Bucks Blue political action committee and produced by Blue Nation Strategies, tries to send a clear message to potential Bucks voters: Vote by mail. It’s uncomplicated. Bucks County is the only purple county outside of Philadelphia, and now, for the first time in a decade and a half, the only county where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats. Philadelphia’s suburbs played a key role in President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, and any change could have ramifications across the country.

Robinson, a former Bucks County recorder of deeds, is an internet celebrity who talks about grief through comedy rooted in the death of her husband Mark Rosenthal in 2010 along with their two children Sam Rosenthal, 31, and Emma Rosenthal, 28, under the handle these are terosenthals. (Robinson was previously Rosenthal, but now uses her maiden name.)

In the video, she wasn’t talking about mailing in a naked ballot (don’t do that!), but about voting naked from home. (Naked ballots are defective absentee ballots that are not placed in the required secrecy envelope in Pennsylvania.)

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In the flagship video ad, local theater extraordinaire John Augustine also appears naked as himself tells viewers to go BucksVotes.org register your willingness to vote by correspondence, which links to the Bucks County Democratic Committee website. The eye-catching ad, which appears on streaming platforms like Hulu and Roku, and similar digital display ads appearing across the internet, features a group of locals who were willing to push the boundaries for democracy, including Kevin Aster Young, Ari Spectorman, Nastasha Raisley and Sarah Harrison.

They were recruited by Bonnie Chang, chairwoman of… Turn Bucks bluewith whom I got involved Strategies of the Blue Nation in June about the idea as Democrats felt disheartened by the lack of enthusiasm behind Biden. Blue Nation had been pitching the idea to candidates for several years and no one wanted to touch it, but the off-the-wall skit was exactly the kind of hopeful message Chang was looking for.

“We thought we wanted to do something positive, you know, we don’t want to accumulate this doom and gloom,” Chang said. “And we didn’t want to repeat this kind of lectures like: ‘You have to save democracy,'” he added.

Chang said her team is targeting about 50,000 swing county voters, mostly Democrats, who are unlikely to vote.

The ad will run for a total of six weeks until Oct. 29, the deadline to request an absentee ballot, and preliminary data showed that 70% of people watched the entire 15- and 30-second versions of the ad, Chang said.

“When we say ‘naked,’ people actually pay attention to it,” she said. “Like, oh, what is this?”

The ad is especially eye-catching because of Robinson’s camera-ready charisma 1.5 million TikTok followers AND 457,000 followers on Instagram. However, she has not posted about politics on her page and has not promoted the ad to her fans since Instagram removed a photo of Robinson in panties on set, prompting a review of her other posts.

However, she said she was proud of the ad and had no qualms about exposing her body in the name of democracy.

“If they think this is a way we can lend a hand publicity and get people to mail in their ballots, I’m all for it,– she said.

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