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National Geographic Society says. Banners waved in ancient Greece and supporters of Roman candidates scrawled slogans on stone road markers 2,000 years ago. Campaign buttons date back to Alexander the Great who gave silver buttons to his constituents, promising the ancieiit equivalent of a New Deal.

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