CONTENT: Politics can often feel like a serious, high-stakes game, but who says we can’t inject a little humor into the mix?

These buttons left Roosevelt’s button corps in the dust. Since campaign buttons traditionally came out just before a campaign, FDR’s button operation was vastly outmatched by Willkie’s.

The item on the online auction sounded intriguing — framed collection of political buttons: presidential elections from 1896 to 1972. The reserve was only $15. And no one had submitted a bid.

In the fall of 1968, I remember visiting the Nixon-Agnew and Humphrey-Muskie campaign headquarters in Brooklyn with my brother. We picked up bumper stickers, pamphlets and, best of all, campaign bu… ...

Political slogans come and go. And sometimes they come back again. For instance, back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s campaign captured hearts with the slogan “ Making America Great Again.

The first item on the “Make America Great Again” agenda of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was to craft a replacement logo to ...

A button that exemplifies this type of sentiment came from the 1968 presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, whose critics created buttons with “McCarthy for Fuhrer” printed on them, Carter says.

DETAILS: Although the ideology is dated by the standards and progress of recent history, this original Romney/Ryan 1950’s campaign poster and button set are a fantastic representation of a ...

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.