Pat Sellers, a political science professor at Davidson College, is running an innovative election simulation in which two teams of students are battling in a mock campus-wide election. One team created a female Republican played by a post office employee, and the other decided to run a fictionalized version of “Saved by the Bell” character Zach Morris as the Democrat. Students at the college will vote on Feb. 22.

The best part is the attack ads created by the students, which the college has put online — they’re surprisingly realistic-looking and at the same time a kind of meta-commentary on the genre (all links to Real Player video):

For an anti-Zach Morris ad, click here.
For a pro-Zach Morris ad, click here.
For a pro-Spencer ad, click here.
For an anti-Spencer ad, click here.
For an anti-Morris ad prepared by the outside class “interest group,” click here.
For an anti-Spencer ad prepared by the outside class “interest group,” click here.

Check them out.