Political campaign yard signs are the cornerstone of many local elections for office, and candidates often devote a large chunk of their campaign budgets toward purchasing them. Although Killer Campaigning has cautioned in the past against relying to much on yard signs, they are a resource that every candidate needs to have in some degree [...]
This week on Killer Campaigning, we’re going to take a quick look at some of the political campaign sign designs and advertising materials from the 1964 presidential election. Candidates included Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Barry Goldwater, William E. Miller, and Nelson Rockefeller. Every week, Killer Campaigning posts campaign signs from past presidential political campaigns. [...]
Political campaign yard sign designs are one of our favorite topics here on Killer Campaigning. Although you’ve heard us question the usefulness of campaign signs in local campaigns, presidential campaign signs make for fun collectibles and trivia for political campaign junkies, and it can be amusing to look back at how sign designs have evolved [...]
Here’s a question that we recently received from a Killer Campaigning reader: About how many yard signs should I order for my political race? I will be on the ballot next year and the district has about 20,000 voters in it. I want to make sure that I order enough yard signs, but then again [...]
You’ll hear me say this many times on Killer Campaigning: in political campaigning, yard signs are vastly overrated. For a campaign manager, few elements waste more time and energy than yard signs. Most new candidates (and even some seasoned ones) seem to think that yard signs are far more important than they really are. And [...]