campaign buttons

Candidate lapel pins

Campaign buttons are small pins worn to show support for a political candidate, typically displaying the candidate's name, slogan, or image.

They emerged as a staple of American electoral politics and are now collected as memorabilia: She has campaign buttons going back to Eisenhower.

The term extends to buttons promoting any cause or movement.

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Adhesive vehicle slogans

yard signs · billboards · window decals · lawn signs · political murals

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legislation · political memoirs · historical archives · voting records

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