Rick Santorum tours Bemidji Woolen Mills, a company contracted to produce custom sweater vests as campaign promotional items.
(Ethan Sundquist)
Every four years, the nation rallies around the presidential candidates, tuning into debates, taking in interviews, going to the polls, and, of course, spending money. But we’re not just talking about campaign donations.
From the old Goldwater Girl scarves to the current Santorum sweater, from freelance TV crews to the security staff that guard political rallies, campaign time means money and jobs for working Americans and cottage industries.
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MoreStephen Reader has been investigating the unique micro-economies that spring up every four years, around campaign time. A blogger for It’s a Free Country, he joins us in studio.
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If he's lucky the Obama equivalent of the sweater vest will be millions of women of all ages wearing huge SAVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD buttons. Not as stylin', i know, but Romney must pay for that remark yesterday saying about PP, oh, we'll get rid of that...
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