Hillary Clinton Campaign Buttons Are The Most Popular Of 2015
December 31, 2015 - Matching her dominance in poll numbers, former Secretary State of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign buttons are the best sellers of 2015.
According to Chris Daniels of campaingbuttons-etc , Clinton campaign buttons when compared with all 5 Democrats and all 17 Republicans running for the White House in 2016 accounted for 18.2% of sales for the year. Clinton's closest competitor and no stranger to retail merchandising himself, is New York Businessman Donald Trump with sales of campaign buttons of 12.5%. Trump is followed surprisingly by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush with 8.1%. While current national polling has Bush is low single digits, the percentage of campaign button sold indicates that Bush may be doing better than is actually be reflected in potential voter surveys.
Campaign buttons for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey registered sales of 5.3% followed by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida with 4.7% and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas , Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Dr. Ben Carson all with 4.6%. Former CEO Carly Fiorina accounted for sales of 4.2%.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky had sales of 3.5% followed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker with 3.2%. Ohio Governor John Kasich campaign buttons accounted for sales of 2.9% followed by former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina all with 2.6%. Louisianan Governor Bobby Jindal clocks in at 2.5% followed by former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley with 2.4%. Next up is former Texas Governor Rick Perry with 2.2% of campaign buttons sales.
Having campaign button sales figures as anemic as their actual polls numbers are former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia at 1.4%, former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee with 1.3% , former New York Governor George Pataki with 1.2% and former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore at 0.7%.
In comparing sales just among Democrats , Hillary Clinton campaign buttons accounted for 64% followed by Sanders at 16% , O'Malley 8.6% , Webb 5.2% and Chafee 4.9%.
Measuring their strength of sales just among Republicans, Trump led the field with 18.2% followed by Bush at 11.8%. Compared to other GOP White House hopefuls Christie campaign buttons accounted for 7.7% followed by Rubio at 6.9%, Cruz and Carson 6.7% , Fiorina 6.2 % and Paul at 5.1%.
Long since departed from the race , Walker campaign buttons registered 4.6% of sales followed by Kasich at 4.3%, Graham at 3.9% and Santorum and Huckabee both at 3.7%.
Rounding out the campaign buttons sales figures for Republican presidential candidates was Jindal at 3.6%, Perry 3.2%, Pataki 1.7% and Gilmore at 1.1%.