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Puff pastry filled with spinach and cheese, or mushrooms and ham, or lemon-spiked asparagus.

Deviled eggs have political associations for me (had my first deviled egg ever while watching the Reagan inaugural at school).

Meatballs are good -- Spanish-style albondigas, for instance.

A good twist on roasted nuts is olive-oil-fried almonds (buy blanched, peeled almonds and then fry them in olive oil until they're golden, sprinkle with salt). You can use this same technique with whole, boiled baby potatoes.

Olives.

Crudite of shrimp or salmon salad on toast rounds.

I like tapas, as you can probably tell.

You could do donkey-shaped sugar cookies (I have elephant and donkey cookie cutters for this reason).

OH: You may wanna check out FEC rules on providing food for Congressional fundraisers. There's a limit to what you can provide without disclosing it as a campaign contribution, and then after that there's a limit to what you can provide, period.