We’ve made a surprising number of sales of Election 2008 bumper stickers, buttons, shirts, magnets, lawn signs and such to people who live outside the United States. It turns out that our sales of gear supporting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to residents of Canada and Europe is in the high hundreds.
Both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have asserted that a priority in their administrations would be to reach out again to other countries, to jettison the militaristic and aggressively binary approach of the Bush administration, and to renew diplomatic efforts around the world. How do these candidates appeal to people living in those other countries? Here are the distributions of sales so far this year for Clinton and Obama in Canada and Europe, the places to where most of our international sales were shipped.
Canada
Hillary Clinton: 8.2%
Barack Obama: 91.8%
Europe
Hillary Clinton: 25.4%
Barack Obama: 74.6%
Our sales to Africa, Asia, Australia and South America aren’t in numbers large enough for me to make a numerical report with any confidence, but I can tell you that items supporting Barack Obama have accounted for very nearly all of the few sales we have made to people living on those continents.
i’m surprised that McCain(‘t) isn’t included here, since, according to a report on NPR, many people in both Europe and especially the Middle East want him to continue the Bush agenda. (i can’t even imagine 4 more years of this crap.)
We don’t sell McCain items. Ick.