BUTTONS!! A Plea for BUTTONS!!!!!!!!!! I'm begging!

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Just spoke to my Mom, who lives in Bayside, Queens, an area that votes Republican as often as not.

A woman in the supermarket stopped to talk to her. Why? SHE SAW HER KERRY/EDWARDS BUTTON! "Do you think he has a chance?" she asked. My Mom told her the story of Truman and Dewey, which this girl was too young to have known.

That woman told my Mom how isolated she felt, because she didn't see any Kerry buttons in her area. NOBODY SEES ANY KERRY BUTTONS BECAUSE NOBODY IS SELLING KERRY BUTTONS.

My Mom took hers off my shirt when I came to visit.

Internet fundraising is dandy. Maybe you can't raise as much sitting at a card table selling buttons........BUT NOTHING IS AS IMPORTANT AS THAT COMFY FEEL OF GROUP IDENTIFICATION.

And card tables are a great place to hand out position papers. Too many people don't know what the candidates are for or against. Too many don't bother to download the info from the internet.

My neighbor, who is FOR Kerry, thoughtfully put some position papers on Bush and Kerry on the wall of our building's vestibule. Only thing is, poor innocent, they were downloads from MSNBC which is pretending that there is some six of one, half a dozen of the other about these men.

KERRY position papers need to be on the streets available for reading when people BUY THEIR BUTTONS.

I cannot understand why this is being neglected. It's a huge part of the reason people are being fooled into thinking Bush is ahead.

Big buttons. Little buttons. Buttons on suits and jackets and coats and sweaters and blouses and dresses. Buttons that can be worn for any occasion and special occasions (I like a tiny button positioned in cleavage for formal events).

BUTTONS!!!!!!!!!! WHERE ARE THE BUTTONS?????????????????????????