15 shocking election-inspired tattoos
From a pot-smoking Bernie to a politically incorrect Trump, voters cast their allegiance with permanent ink


There are oodles of ways to show your political pride. You can wear a button, a T-shirt, or a hat. You can layer another bumper sticker on your car, stick a placard in your window, or throw an embroidered pillow on your couch. But that kind of flair is ever so temporary. True believers brand their partisan allegiances into their flesh for all eternity.
If you, too, want a more permanent form of candidate support, follow these voters to the local tattoo parlor where, with a little bit of money, and a decent threshold for pain, you can have your presidential preference forever inked onto your skin. Below, a look at some of the more daring, bewildering, and, well, yuge tattoos people got this presidential election cycle.
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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.
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