Well, at least the part of the economy that sells tchotchkes adorned with his image:

In most election years, the candidate T-shirt and button market pretty much disappears after the ballots are counted. Not this time. Our next president has become a living, breathing stimulus package for a modest-size group of entrepreneurs who are slapping Obama’s image on any surface it’ll stick to. At CafePress.com there are 96,000 different Obama-related designs for sale, according to vice president of marketing Amy Maniatis. That includes a T-shirt that says “Now I don’t have to move to Canada” and a poster that says “Once you go Barack, you’ll never go back.” All the designs come from “virtual shopkeepers,” who upload images to the site and then sell them on any number of stock items, splitting the profits with CafePress.

“This is our third election, and for us, what we saw in 2000 and 2004 was really different,” Maniatis says. “There was a lot of anti-Bush merchandise after those elections.” Anti-Bush stuff sold so well for so many years that there was genuine concern at CafePress that the end of the president’s second term would hurt the company’s bottom line. (“Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close to Collapse” read a recent headline in the Onion.) Instead, Obama love has more than offset the downturn.
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Obamamania has been a boon for tiny Greenville, Ohio, the home of Tigereye Design, which manufactured and handled the fulfillment for official Obama campaign materials, such as shirts, hats and buttons. It also has its own site, DemocraticStuff.com, which peddles an astounding variety of niche Obama buttons, including “Beekeepers for Obama,” “Emo for Obama” and “Ventriloquists for Obama.” Tigereye started the year with a staff of 50, then just kept on hiring.
“We had about 500 people at the peak,” says Steve Swallow, the company’s president. “It really had an impact on our local workforce, because almost all of the people we hired were unemployed before. And it wasn’t just us. If you call the post office here, I bet they’ll say they never handled so much mail.”

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