Buttons are an easy way to keep your supporters promoting your candidates name and message. Free union bug available at no additional cost. Our buttons are metal back with a clear scratch resistant covering making it easy to pin. You supply your own artwork.
Campaign buttons have been around since the beginning of political advertising. Used to convey support or opposition for a candidate or political party, or to support or fight an issue or cause. The button design has not changed much since 1896 a message is printed on paper covering one side of a metal disk and protected by a layer of clear plastic. In 1916, lithographic images were directly printed onto the metal disk. Now campaigns cannot live without thousands of buttons distributed to the public. Engineered buttons come in two ways: celluloid-type buttons fastened by a pin on the back side of the button or a lithographed button that fastens with a pinback or metal tab which folds over a lapel or pocket.
During the 1940 U.S. presidential election, one of the most famous uses of campaign buttons occurred when Wendell Willkie's campaign produced millions of lithographed slogan buttons in rapid response to his opponent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt: or the image of Wendell Willkie charging an elephant. Buttons have now reached into the digital space with the use of graphical campaign buttons, or "web buttons" placed on personal web pages by Internet users. Web buttons are the cheapest to produce (free) and can be spread far and wide with just the price of operating a web connected computer.