The political race this year has become very increasingly important for us younger voters. We feel there's finally a candidate that is more in line with our culture and views than in the past. Also, previous non-voters now realize how important it is to vote after seeing the 2004 mess happen and all the events stemming from it. This younger generation is becoming much more involved with politics and even making it pop culture friendly so political messages can be spread without having to look like a political nerd. Obama has become somewhat of an icon now that Shepherd Fairy, Pharrell Williams, and other hip urban artists have begun to promote him though t-shirts.
If you scour the net, you'll find thousands of designs in support and against this super candidate. There is no shortage of websites you can
find Obama t-shirts. Even yet, one of the larger site's daily hottest
t-shirts page is completely covered with political merchandise. Almost all of which are designs featuring Barack Obama.
McCain has his fair share of supporters as well, but by choosing a beauty queen VP, the majority of the attention has drifted towards her. Many of the designs online feature Sarah Palin digitally added to photos of bikini models. Regardless, there's many choices to suit your personal tastes.
With that, here's my favorite political t-shirts of 2008.
The first one is quite obvious and comes from
Obey. This is one of the most seen poster designs that's made it way on to t-shirts as well.
Probably the second most seen design is the one proclaiming
Barack Obama is my homeboy! This has been remade countless times. One of the variants being a gold foil print that was worn Kim Kardashian. Here's the most popular version.
This third design has sort of maintained a presence as the hip political t-shirt for many years. It's nothing other than the "rock the vote" shirt. The design has a couple variations as well as plenty of funky colors to choose from. You can find this shirt on
revolve clothing's Rock the vote page.
The fourth shirt is in support of a man that built an entire campaign using the internet. Ron Paul sparked probably sparked the second largest wave of younger voters next to Obama. This "Ron Paul Revolution" design can be found
here.
The final shirt is one you can find at
urban outfitters. Obama has hit it out of the park yet again with another design called "Barack n' Roll".
My Opera
