Blue is the hot color for the fashion industry this election season.

[a kennedy]

Fashion Trends Toward Obama in Presidential Race

by Kristi Ellis

WASHINGTON — Blue is the hot color for the fashion industry this election season.

An analysis of campaign contributions from executives and employees of 27 department stores and mass retailers and apparel vendors during the election cycle shows the industry lining up almost two to one in favor of electing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to the White House over Republican nominee John McCain.

Individual industry contributions reveal people from apparel brands, department stores, discounters and specialty chains gave a combined $357,865 to Obama and McCain from January 2007 through the end of this August, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Of that total, executives and employees gave $228,154 to Obama and $129,711 to McCain.

The list of companies included in the analysis by the nonprofit center ranged from such vendors as Liz Claiborne Inc., Jones Apparel Group Inc., Polo Ralph Lauren Corp., Calvin Klein Inc., Estée Lauder Cos., Nike Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co. to department stores J.C. Penney Co., Nordstrom Inc., Neiman Marcus Group, Macy’s Inc. and Saks Inc.; specialty retailers Gap Inc., Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., Limited Brands Inc. and Ann Taylor Stores Corp., and mass merchants Target Corp., Sears Holding Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

With only two weeks until Election Day, Obama and McCain are putting those donations to use, filling the airwaves with campaign ads and hiring scores of people to get out their blueprints on the economy and other issues in battleground states, fighting to color them blue, for the Democrats, or red, for the Republicans, and grab their electoral votes.

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[mnhtnbb]

1. Gee, I thought the hot color was purple this fall--formerly red states

bleeding to blue!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. People know a winner when they see one

BTW, on a fashion note--I wore a blue ensemble when I went to vote yesterday.

[a kennedy]

4. I will too...

:hi: :thumbsup:

[tedoll78]

3. When I went to vote early..

I made it a point to wear the absolutely bluest shirt I had.
(I do that every four years.. :P)

[a kennedy]

6. Yup, I'm gonna wear blue too......

and a flag pin. :thumbsup: :hi: :patriot:

[lolamio]

5. My husband read something on one of his auto blogs that blue is the hot car color, too! n/t