Posted on 07/22/2008 7:42:33 PM PDT by TADSLOS
WASHINGTON (AFP) - \Barack Obama is trouncing John McCain in the race for the White House -- at least in sales of T-shirts, badges, baseball caps and other campaign merchandise.
"Everyone is going for Obama," a sidewalk vendor whose stand was smothered in Obama and McCain T-shirts, along with garb for visitors to Washington, told AFP.
"We sell about 70 percent Obama stuff -- way more than McCain," said the vendor, who asked not to be named.
Obama-embroidered baseball caps sat in the center of the stand; the absence of a McCain equivalent was striking.
"I don't think our wholesaler makes McCain baseball caps," the vendor said.
On the Café Press website, where users create and sell products to express their political passion, Obama garb made up 66 percent of sales in the week from July 13; McCain kits made up 14 percent of sales in the same seven-day period.
McCain didn't do that much better than Hillary Clinton, who racked up nine percent of sales on Café Press -- and Clinton dropped out of the race for the nomination in June.
At Capital Noveltees, a wholesaler that supplies campaign merchandise to retail outlets around the United States, sales of things Obama were also making revenues from McCain goods look pale and flat.
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Oh, yeah??? But how many free mugs have they given away?????
Yep, Obama has that going for him. Unfortunately, his competition hasn’t arrived on scene yet and probably never will.
LOL!
You Purists are the masters of the name calling and yet you whine when someone call you who you are. I thought you are so proud of being called Purists.
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