There are a lot of weird ways to predict the winner of a presidential election. Some people do it based on candidate height. There's a soothsaying monkey known to make the right pick. There's even ...

As a young stockbroker in New York City during the 1960s, a chance encounter with a political canvasser changed Julius "Desey" Desenberg's life. The canvasser, working for a mayoral candidate ...

Collector Bob Dawson, a Boston financial advisor, brought thousands of the buttons with him to sell at the Auburn show. His sampling boasted contemporary political campaign buttons from 1952 ...

Campaign buttons have been around since George Washington but Lincoln was the first president to use them strategically as a campaign tool in the 1860 presidential election. Scandal is nothing new ...

A chance for political junkies to buy ... Toepel may have a lot of campaign buttons, but those relationships are what keep him coming back. "Through the hobby I met the most interesting people ...

Election Day is Tuesday ... Anyone who shows up to a Louisiana polling place wearing a button, hat, shirt or other campaign apparel "would be asked to either turn the shirt inside out, remove ...

From the 1892 campaign between Democrat Grover ... The collection covers the elections including the current campaigns. Many buttons will also be on display for candidates who never were on ...