Tennesseans snap up presidential campaign pins, signs

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=2090102

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July 26, 2004

KNOXVILLE (AP) -- If sales of T-shirts, pins and yard signs is a barometer, the presidential campaigns are building interest in Tennessee.

Even in Republican-leaning East Tennessee, merchandise is moving fast for the John Kerry-John Edwards' Democratic ticket.

Tennessee Democratic Party chairman Randy Button says a store at the Knoxville Kerry for President headquarters has been the busiest in the state.

Knox County Democratic party official Wade Till says merchandise sales already are ahead of four years ago when favorite son Al Gore was leading the ticket.

Between $10,000 and $12,000 worth of merchandise has been sold and more is on order. The Knoxville office supplies all of East Tennessee. Sales have taken off with the Democratic National Convention opening Monday in Boston.

Kerry HQ off Middlebrook next door to the Harper's Bike shop.

Irony is the HQ being next to the bike shop as Kerry is so much involved in outdoor activities!

hey man! I am up here in Morristown..... not far from you. I am on Middlebrook Pike all the time. I take that way as a short cut to get over to Cedar Bluff when I-40 is jammed up.... That is irony about the bike shop...... Is most of Knoxville Repub????

Especially West Knox/Farragut. South Knox is most Dem.

However I'm seeing a good bunch of Kerry bumper stickers on cars running around Kingston Pike.....