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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I had a good chuckle when I saw these Vintage Watch Movement Cuff Links over at Make Magazine. The Makers are known for inventing all sorts of uncommon things from common objects. I figure that if you get bored enough with the election you can turn your candidate into a cufflink, just like this guy did.

If the Internet were a country it’s pretty clear that Barack Obama would be its commander in chief. And if Al Gore is really the Father of the Internet then Obama is his first born son.

The one thing it seems that pundits can agree is that Obama’s Internet team is leagues ahead of the other candidates when it comes to understanding Web 2.0. Today when I checked the web I found that
Google (www.google.com) search for Obama brings up 162,000,000 returns, nearly double that of the 75,400,000 for McCain. On Facebook McCain has 140,000 supporters. Obama has nearly one million. Read the rest of this entry »

1. It’s always good to have a politician up your sleeve.
2. You can keep your politics discrete while at the office.
3. You didn’t want to be on time, anyhow, did you?
4. You’ll soon know if they’re waving goodbye or hello. Read the rest of this entry »

Your intrepid Election Watches marketer just happened to find herself in Portland on that unseasonably warm Sunday, May 20th, when 80,00 or so of Portland’s residents showed up at the river front park on the Wilamette to see their man in action.

Determined to offer Obama his very own waving watch, I braved the two-plus hour line (why can’t Portland be more like NY and sell water, hotdogs and peanuts at every corner?) with not so much as a drop of water to drink. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the ultimate in luxury, a $300,000 watch  that doesn’t tell time.  The company, Romain Jerome, also makes pricey watches out of salvage from the Titanic.
I heard about this watch while listening to NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me but I’ve just  got to tell you. The watch has no display for the hours, minutes or seconds – just Day&Night (as if I didn’t know).
“Surely the ultimate luxury would be to take one’s time?” reads the company’s ad.  I guess if you’re rich enough you make your own schedule.  But it sure makes a waving election watch look like a bargain.