Campaign Nostalgia: Which CANdidate Would You Choose?

We can all agree that campaign advertising these days has gone off the deep end. So much of what gets plastered on the virtual wall says less about the person running for office and more (negative) about the person they’re running against. Ugh!

Wouldn’t it be great to go back to a time when that didn’t happen? When campaigns were more about how they would plan, execute, and resolve the ills of society?

Maybe I haven’t looked hard enough, but so far it seems that campaign foolishness has always been a part of the election process.

Click here to see some of my other campaign memorabilia discoveries.

My search for a story led me to Ridgefield last weekend (twice) to see a sale that turned out to be a true “dig.” While there, I found this icon of a memorable defeated candidate of the 1964 election.

Someone in Barry Goldwater’s campaign team, came up with the idea for a soda which would help promote his campaign. There is conflicting information whether Barry might have approved of this gimmick. Can collectors, however, might consider this to be highly prized piece for its uniqueness.

Another piece of Gold (water) here.

As you can see from the lead image, Lyndon Johnson was not to be out done and his campaign team came up with a competitor to “GoldWater” soda to offer “Johnson Juice.” This was said to be the start of the original cola wars, though neither were actually colas.

Do you have a favorite piece of campaign memorabilia?