This document provides an overview of tools for analyzing political advertising, including language, emotion, persuasion, truth, and style. It discusses how to analyze the tone, argument, and emotional appeal of ads, and how imagery, sound editing, music, voiceovers, and repetition in ads can advance the argument or heighten the emotional impact. It also lists two 1968 political ads, "Convention" for Nixon and "Mother and Child" for Humphrey, as case studies.