Come Home America In many elections I hear voters say they have to choose between the lesser of evils. But in 1972 it was clearly...

Morty Comix # 2444 was left on a brick ledge over a couple of pathetic real estate brochure distribution boxes in a strip mall o...

Only one of these will still be laughing after Election Day

Democrat Donkey and Republican Elephant salt shakers The legacy of cartooning on the political system

DEM - GOP salt shakers I never understood why the Republicans are called the "Grand Old Party," or GOP. They certainly are ...

WIN On the curl: Bastian Bros Co, Rochester, NY The brainchild of the Ford Administration, this was an acronym for "Whip Inf...

Nixon This small bit of metal was designed to clip on to a shirt pocket. I found it on the ground in 1968.

O'Brien Robert S. O'Brien, a Democrat, served as Washington State Treasurer for 100 years. I picked up this button in 1968. Thi...

Governor John O'Connell, Democrat In 1968 three term Washington State Attorney General John J. O'Connell made an attempt to uns...

Dan Evans I found this button on the ground when Washington State Gov. Evans was running for his second term in 1968. Comic art histo...

Wrong again. Republican Jack Metcalf used this phrase as his campaign theme in his unsuccessful bid to unseat incumbent U.S. Senator Wa...

Hughes for Congress Republican File Your Protest OK, OK, I know this isn't a button. It's a nail file with a pun, but I am go...

Anderson For President Congressman John Anderson of Illinois initially ran in the 1980 primaries as a Republican, but refused to join h...

 Remember Oct. 9 For more buttons, Ms. Anderson, Clergy & Laity Concerned , (402) 426-4006, $25.00/M This was a button dist...

Morty Comix # 2422 was left tucked into a flap of some kind of adhesive that appears to have contributed to holding up a promoti...

President Nixon Curl says: COADCO - COMM FOR THE RE-ELECT OF THE PRESIDENT The Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972...

The curl has: Official Nixon Button, Feeley & Wheeler Co., 370 Lexington N.Y.C. 10007

Nixon Now A most impressive effort of the Nixon campaign trying to lure the youth vote, 1972 was the first where 18 year-olds could vot...

Nixon's The One! OK, this isn't really a button, it is more of a badge thing you clipped over your shirt pocket. As I recall I ...

I Like Ike Hard to read, but I think it says "Bastion Bros, Rochester, N.Y." on the curl