The Many Lives of ‘Julia’

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The Obama administration recently released a slick interactive ad called “The Life of Julia” which claims to show how policy differences between the president and his presumed opponent Mitt Romney would affect a typical woman throughout the course of her life. The ad inspired a slew of spoofs and rebuttals, a few of which we’ve collected below.

Here’s the original interactive, which shows how the fictional Julia benefits from programs and policies like Head Start, The Affordable Care Act, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

The conservative Heritage Foundation released this rebuttal, criticizing Obama’s “vision of cradle-to-grave government dependence.”

On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart and Kristen Schaal offer this take down:

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