Who Do You Trust with YOUR Money?

Trusting a candidate, or thinking you can trust a particular candidate, is important.

We all seek to find that candidate we can trust to support our values, encourage and lead our country and watch over our personal and national financial well being. If that is true, then perhaps those candidates deemed most trustworthy are those in whom people have invested time and money — and that translates to the trivial purchases of campaign hats, bumper stickers and pins.

People who trust a candidate may be interested in purchasing campaign items like t-shirts, bumper stickers, hats and pins to show their support. Right? If you think Mr. ABC or Ms. ABC would make a great president, why not show it by wearing a t-shirt or carrying a bag promoting their candidacy? Perhaps you can convince others to consider that candidate!

There are many visitors to www.CANDIDATE STUFF.COM each day and they can browse products for 10 of the top candidates—5 democrats and 5 republicans. Can the candidates with the most the loyal followers be the ones whose products sell best?

The top sales items support candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. People who purchase items promoting those two candidates usually buy more than one product. They may opt for three identical hats or a combination tote bag, hat and t-shirt, for example. As far as purchases go, the democrats significantly lead the republicans. Republican supporters, the few that have made product purchases, favor bumper stickers. They purchase one item.

Does this mean people trust democrats more than republicans? Does it mean we should expect higher costs? All I can say is there is much interest in Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Mac the Observer

Fred Thompson, will he run??

Republicans seem to be on the hunt to find another Ronald Reagan and some believe Fred Thompson can play that role. For those interested in political hats, t-shirts, bumper stickers and other "Fred" gear, see CANDIDATESTUFF.com and look for the section of Fred's items. There are thousands of items!

And speaking about candidate hats and other items ... take a look at a couple of different candidate hat designs, for instance. One observation I made while working on all this election gear is that some candidates have a great range of interesting and colorful designs while a few others have boring, barely legible designs. (The designs shown on www.candidatestuff.com are somewhat random and do not reflect my choices in design or candidate.) So if winning an election has a lot to do with appearances and symbols then some of the candidates are in trouble judging from their designs. Why? Do they not inspire creative people? Are their chances so slim that no one bothers to create colorful logos for them? Other candidates' items have beautiful and varied creative designs that work symbols and images. Are they just more inspiring?? Anyone care to comment on what you see??

And don't worry if about wasting money with a purchase of campaign buttons for a particular candidate who may be a long shot. Those items are the very things that make fascinating, colorful, and valuable memorabilia. Anyone have a Scoop Jackson button? Or Gary Hart? How about George Wallace!

My first button was "I like Ike" which disappeared after his election. Wouldn't it be great to see today!

Mac the Observer