I learned about this little contest from the PA League of Young Voters new blog and it seemed like it would be a good fit for anyone who has been designing some t-shirts around election day or as we like to call it “Spreading the Vote.”

VoteHipHop.org is looking for people to talk about “why hip-hop is important to any political change, and what issues are important to you and your community.” T-shirt designs are accepted as entries to this contest!

So just get to designing a shirt for your shop (or the marketplace) and head on over to VoteHipHop.org and enter your submission. You have to be between the age of 18-30.

Prizes:

One winner will be chosen from each category. Winners each get $500, a free trip to a nationally televised awards ceremony, get featured on The Nation Magazine online, WireTap Magazine, Future5000.com and dozens of other syndicated websites.

The Judges Include:

• Talib Kweli - a rapper and poet
• Jamilah King - editor of WiretapMag.org
• Adriel Luis - Founder of iLL-Literacy
• Favianna Rodriguez - Co-founder of EastSide Arts
• Monifa Akinwole Bandele - Executive Director of Change the Game

Election day is 103 days away - there is still lots of time for campaigning and for campaign t-shirts. We want to help you Spread The Vote T-shirt style. Please add your best election designs for candidates or just about voting to the Spreadshirt marketplace. Please start adding your best political designs to the marketplace and add the tag SpreadTheVote. We will be featuring the best of the election designs from now until election day.

I was just emailed this little video commercial from MoveOn’s Obama Commercial Contest.  It is pretty funny - but all I could think about while watching was this needs to be a t-shirt.  Just a simple text t-shirt.  So I am putting this challenge out to you - show me what you can do with the 4 letters - H O P E and a t-shirt.  I will feature the best ones here on the blog.

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Important Disclosure - Spreadshirt does not endorse any candidates - we are just here to help you support your favorite candidate via the all important media of the t-shirt.

If MTV can rock the vote, then we are going to t-shirt the vote. We are big fans of using t-shirts to express yourself. There are a lot of people expressing a love (or hate) for the presidential candidates. Here are a few things happening in the world of Presidential candidate t-shirts…

• McCainiac - Bryant has created some great gear inspired by McCain’s appearance on WFF. Check out his blog, Errorless.com, and shop.
• Hillary Presents - PROJECT T-SHIRT - move over Heidi Klum, it is time for team Hillary to create the best new runway fashions. Hillary Clinton is holding a contest for people to design her next t-shirt. Entries are due May 15, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST. More info at HillaryClinton.com/tshirt (Check out the comments on this post for some t-shirt slogan ideas - many of these would look great in white text on a color shirt)

Less than 24 hours to go until Super Tuesday. I just took a look at this YouTube video - were some of the top celebrities participate in singing one of Barack Obama’s speeches. There are some amazing t-shirts in this video - I know this picture isn’t the best - but you can see the Obama t-shirt.

Even, better - you can create your own Yes We Can t-shirt/tote/bib at Spreadshirt. Have you created a shirt to support your favorite candidate? We want to see - please leave a comment with a link.

Check out the Video - many of the celebrities are wearing t-shirts, there are some cool designs too.

Important Sounding Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of any candidate, just an indept look at politics and t-shirts.

Super Tuesday is just 2 weeks away. It is presidential campaign season and that means it is political t-shirt season. We want to show off the best and funniest political t-shirts. Campaign t-shirts can be big sellers - support your favorite candidate or make fun of your least favorite candidate. Add you political designs to the Spreadshirt marketplace and please add the tag Vote2008 so I can find them and blog about them.

I am loving this Llama for Obama design - I think it looks hot on the light blue shirt. One of my favorite t-shirts from the 2004 election was on this blue color.