Thanks to Senator Clinton who took the time to write a note thanking us for giving her a waving watch of her very own. It’s a collector’s item now, since we’ve sold out our Hillary stock. Wear it well, Hillary and special thanks to Norm Wu for working the watch up the chain of command.

My chuckle of the day came when a friend sent me these kipot (yarmulke) – the Jewish head covering emblazoned with each candidates name. She wrote me that “she thinks they’d go great with the watch”. Thanks, Mariann.

Wacky Campaign Gear 2008
We pick the 10 most innovative campaign gifts so you don’t have to bother (yes, one of them is ours)

ElectionWatches: Which one is waving goodbye and which one is waving hello? You’ll be a friend-magnet when you wear one of these wind- up politicos. Keep Democracy Ticking as your purchase registers on The Election Watch poll. From $25

Hillary Clinton Nutcracker : You won’t find the Obama or McCain version of this one, but the Senator Hillary Clinton NutCracker is ready to bust your wal(nuts). $20

AirForce One Play Set: Create your own motorcade or hop over to Camp David with your Air Force One Play Set Toys – presidential seals and motorcade signs included. $25 Read the rest of this entry »

Fred Ebert, The Freducator, hosts a show on KITZ out of Port Orchard, Washington.  Fred, a bit of a politico himself (his color is red) says he’s got a Nixon button from 1968.  He thinks we’re onto something big with the watches as real collectibles. You can find Fred here and learn a thing or two in the process.

Another election watch spotting thanks to Ariel Moses our very own hyperlink to world of high society. Today it’s a top to bottom fashion report, McCain watch included, compliments of Mary Rambin and Liam McMullen. For those who of you who have enough trouble just figuring out who Obama and McCain are, McMullen is the son of NY’s favorite society photographer, Patrick McMullen. He exudes star power, he’s a talented photographer in his own right, and he has a great sense of fashion, especially in his watch-wear.

Our watches are making their way into the NY Social Scene by being seen everywhere.  At Guest of a Guest you can read Steph Wei’s first person account about her choice in watches, and candidates.  Big thanks to long time buddy, Ariel Moses, for being NY’s Election Watch catalyst.

She was the prettiest watch of them all. And we will miss her bright pink shirt and cheery wave.  Call it intuition or call it writing on the wall, initially we ordered just enough of Hillary watches to get us through the Democratic face-off.

Even before the watches entered U.S. Customs it was pretty clear that Hillary would be a goner.  But she’s a goner with a loyal following. Within the first  week A.H. (after Hillary) we managed to sell out our entire inventory. Even though her time hadn’t come it’s good to know that she’s out there somewhere telling time.

Let us know and maybe we’ll whip up another batch.  Would you still buy a Hill? 

ElectionWatches Issues a Colbert Challenge

Nation,

Tonight I come before you with a broken heart. The same heartache as the one I had when I found out that there was no tooth-fairy and that it was only special effects that let Mary Poppins fly.

Nation, I’m older now, but still feel the pain when the things you cherish are not what appear to be. Tonight Stephen Colbert is right up there with the tooth-fairy and the “objects may appear bigger than they seem” alert on my rear view mirror. Colbert is not the man I thought he was.

Earlier today I got a Return to Sender package in the mail. (Yes, I can still use snail mail.) Apparently Team Colbert chose to refuse to accept the nice ElectionWatches package with the waving Obama and McCain watches inside.

Stephen, my package would have made it through an anthrax screening and was not a fake from the O’Reilly studios. It might have ticked, but more like a clock than a bomb. And did you have to stamp it “Receiver Did Not Want; Returned for Delivery”? The humiliation.

You might have been so proud to wear one (or both) of these on your wrist, but I guess they’d clash with those cause-marketing rubber bracelets. Disappointed, but not waving the white flag yet, this calls for a challenge.

Nation, I challenge Stephen Colbert to take a leap of faith and open my package (preferably on air). As I see it, he can redeem himself as a man who opens his mail or he can continue to shroud himself from unsolicited mail that the rest of us begrudgingly endure.

If Mr. Colbert, if you wear one of these watches I know that Democracy will Keep Ticking and tooth-fairies everywhere will rejoice.

With apologies to the Gipper, “Mr. Colbert, TEAR OPEN THIS PACKAGE !”

Robin Raskin
Director of Marketing
www.electionwatches.com

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