My Button Collection

During the 2020 Presidential Primaries, I decided to collect and organize buttons.  

My grandmother has a button collection that includes an original “I Like Ike” button from Eisenhower’s presidential campaign. 

Many great and interesting candidates ran in this year’s presidential primary contests. 

My five favorite candidates were 1) Bernie Sanders, 2) Elizabeth Warren, 3) Andrew Yang, 4) Pete Buttigieg, and 5) Bill Weld. 

Buttons for these campaigns feature heavily in my collection. I also have a button for Tulsi Gabbard, another 2020 presidential candidate. 

My collection includes many buttons from the annual Smoky Hill River Festival, which is held in my hometown of Salina, Kansas. 

My button collection is already fairly impressive, but I’m sure it will only continue to grow. 

PolitiRap

Like many political observers, I was struck by the number of Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination during the 2020 primary.

The large field of candidates reminded me of the PokeRap, which introduced the first 151 Pokemon featured in video games, playing cards, and anime.

I decided to combine the two and create a PolitiRap featuring presidential candidates, each of which would be paired with an analogous Pokemon.

I created my PolitiRap in January. It’s less than a minute long.

If you want to examine the comparison slides I used in the PolitiRap more closely, watch this companion video.