The origin of campaign songs were partisan ditties used in American political canvasses and more especially in presidential contests. The use of a campaign song is primarily known in the quadrennial United States presidential election, where both major party candidates usually use one or more songs to identify with their campaign. Some songs originally devised as a campaign song for a specific election have become identified with the party itself in later election cycles for example, the Likud's campaign song for the 1992 Israeli legislative election, 'The Likud is Right', has become the Party's anthem starting in the late 2000s. In some cases, the campaign song can be a veiled attack on an opposing candidate or party.

Most modern campaign songs are upbeat popular songs or original compositions that articulate a positive message about a campaign or candidate, usually appealing to patriotism, optimism, or a good-natured reference to a personal quality of the candidate such as their ethnic origin or the part of the country they are from. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭampaign songs are songs used by candidates or political campaigns. JSTOR ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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