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Orrex

(63,224 posts)
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 09:46 AM Aug 2012

Encouraging sign for November in western PA

Distressingly, my county has voted strongly Republican in the last two presidential elections, and I saw several McCain/Palin yard signs until at least 2011.

Each year a neighboring town hosts a "Steam Show," which is a very cool showcase of vintage tractors, engines and farm equipment. In previous years, the sentiment at this event has run sharply to the right; I once posted a pic of the "Freedom Fries" vendor, for instance, and GOP bumper stickers are visible in great numbers in the parking lot.

But yesterday my wife noted that she didn't see any Romney bumper stickers. At that point I started looking, and we couldn't find a single one.


I'm hoping that this is an indication of how November will pan out for Mittens.

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Encouraging sign for November in western PA (Original Post) Orrex Aug 2012 OP
are you seeing rmoney stickers anywhere? mucifer Aug 2012 #1
may not be any Romney stickers ... zbdent Aug 2012 #2
Don't harsh my buzz Orrex Aug 2012 #3
Here in Metro Detroit, I haven't seen a single one, either. Denninmi Aug 2012 #4

mucifer

(23,565 posts)
1. are you seeing rmoney stickers anywhere?
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 09:50 AM
Aug 2012

Here in Chicago I really don't see them and I think maybe the campaign hasn't got them out yet.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
2. may not be any Romney stickers ...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 09:51 AM
Aug 2012

but sure enough will be enough voters to keep Dems out of the processes underneath ...

Orrex

(63,224 posts)
3. Don't harsh my buzz
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 11:56 AM
Aug 2012

When you live in a county that tends to go Red, you look for encouragement where you can find it!

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
4. Here in Metro Detroit, I haven't seen a single one, either.
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:07 PM
Aug 2012

I still see cars with Ron Paul 12 stickers, some could be leftovers from '08, I haven't seen a single Rmoney sticker yet. There are a fairly good number of Obama 2012 stickers.

I too take this as a very good sign. There may be anti-Obama enthusiasm from the nutters, but there doesn't seem to be any pro-Mittens crowd out there. That kind of surprises me, too, because I drive right through the middle of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, every week day to and from work, which is Rmoney's home town from decades past when his father George was CEO of American Motors and then Governor of Michigan, and also the site of Cranbrook Academy, home of the assault on the gay student in the 1960s. If anywhere should have Rmoney stickers, it should be this very affluent, very upscale, very old money, non-teabagger wing of the Republican party crowd. But nothing. And I know I saw McCain stickers on the luxury cars back in 2008.

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