2020 Political Buttons Part 8: Bennet & Patrick Items

The New Hampshire primary has now come and gone. President Trump easily won the GOP contest. The Democratic contest had a fair amount of competition. In the end, Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete seemed to be the top two finishers. After the problems in volunteer reporting of the Iowa caucus the week before, politicos were excited about the first state-administered primary. Instead of taking days to report results, we had the results within hours.

Each election night we see winners move onto the next state and we see some candidates bow out of the race. The night of the New Hampshire primary we saw three prominent candidates end their campaigns.  Andrew Yang or New York, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, and former Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. We will look at a small selection of items from the campaigns of Bennet and Patrick in this post. Yang had a large following and produced many items during the primary. That we will cover in a stand-alone post.

Bennet Items

Senator Bennet used bumperactive store to fulfill items purchased from his campaign. Two buttons were sold via the online store. They both have a CWA union bug on the face. One is a generic Bennet for America pin and the other is a neat Bet on Bennet button. It is possible this button with the gambling theme was intended to appeal to Nevada, which is next door to Colorado.

A third button can be found that is similar to the Bennet for America pin above. It was issued for the Minnesota State Fair. We have written about this set in a previous post and you can view the pin there. When we covered the Iowa Steak Fry items we showed you the Bennet foam gavel. Perhaps one of the most unique items to come out of the 2020 campaign so far. 

Another hard to find items from the Steak Fry would be the Steak Fry Rally site lawn signs. It seems like 2-4 of these signs were by each campaign that had a rally site at the Steak Fry. 

 You can contrast this with a standard Bennet lawn sign picked up in Iowa.

There are lots of stickers, shirts, signs and paper items for Bennet. Did you see any other neat Bennet items from the campaign out there? 

Patrick Items 

Deval Patrick entered the race in November of 2019 and dropped out the day after the New Hampshire primary in February of 2020. Patrick made a few trips to Iowa, but he seemed to focus more on his short campaign on New Hampshire. I have seen a few handouts, stickers and rally signs. Only two buttons seem to have been produced by the campaign. 

 This first pin was sold on his campaign store. It appears he contracted with bumperactive to sell his promotional products.

 The second pin was issued by his campaign and could be picked up in New Hampshire. It has a distinct union bug from the bumperactive one and reads it was paid for by Deval for All. So far these are the only two buttons that have turned up from the campaign. We will be keeping our eyes open to see if any others show up. 

If you come across any more items from these campaigns feel free to send us a photo and the details of where you picked it up.