Complaint about Obama yard signs [View All]

I live in the Chico, CA area. I noticed that McCain / Palin yard signs were outnumbering Obama / Biden yard signs by at least 2 to 1, so I went to the Democratic headquarters to get some yard signs for my yard. While Chico tends towards the conservative side, it certainly isn't 2:1 Republican! (Probably more like 55:45 Republican). More Obama yard signs are definitely needed.

But the signs were $9.00 each! (Includes wire stand.) That seems very excessive to me, especially when the purpose of the yard signs should be to make a visual impact, not to make money.

Not only that, but the yard signs were one-sided. This means that if you wanted the message to get out to traffic going both ways on a road, you have to buy two signs. I know two-sided signs are possible, because most of the other Democratic candidate signs were two-sided.

To add insult to injury, there is apparently a very high rate of theft of Obama / Biden yard signs in Chico. And because the Democrats tend to be in the poorer demographics, they tend not to get replaced. In fact, I was told by the people at the Democratic headquarters that Obama / Biden signs were not just stolen, they were REPLACED with McCain / Palin signs! Apparently the opposition has signs to virtually give away, although I don't know this for a fact -- just speculation. But if you saw the number of McCain / Palin signs around here, you'd think the area was at least 2/3 Republican.

The final straw was when I stopped by the Oroville Democratic Headquarters to see if they also charged $9.00 per yard sign. Oroville is in the same county as Chico -- about 20 miles from Chico. Well, they didn't have Obama yard signs. In fact, they hadn't had them for quite awhile. In fact, they had NO Obama material at all -- no yard signs, no bumper stickers, no buttons.

I sure hope that the 50 state strategy doesn't involve giving up on states that are already blue, because those states may have very red pockets, and a full Democratic push is needed in these pockets also, for the same reason it is needed in red states as a whole.