Happy Birthday, America! Now, Vote for Me
Candidates' holiday greetings come with a little self-promotion.
Democratic president candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at an organizing event at a private home July 4, 2015 in Glen, New Hampshire.
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Just like the mattress-sellers, furniture warehouses, and appliance vendors who use every national holiday as an excuse to sell their wares, another enterprising group of Americans took advantage of this July Fourth to try to sell another product: themselves.
On Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, and via e-mail—not to mention along parade routes—most members of this year's unprecedentedly large field of presidential hopefuls took advantage of America's birthday to tout their patriotism, along with their campaigns. Some were subtle about it. Some less so. You be the judge.