I Live In Arizona. And I've Noticed Something Remarkable: I Have Yet To See ONE Romney BumperSticker

[AzDar]

Saw *two* Obama stickers just yesterday driving on the freeway, though.
If you ask me, this "close race" narrative is total bullshit...

[Ian David]

1. I've seen 3 Romney stickers in Massachusetts. n/t

[karynnj]

26. Maybe his campaign staff?

[berni_mccoy]

38. Western MA/Springfield area is heavy Republican.

[valerief]

43. I haven't counted but I've seen Romney stickers and lawn signs in Mass and NH. Sours my stomach to

see them, too.

[kardonb]

44. I've seen

I have seen 1 Romney sticker , but I have 4 Obama stickers on my car in the back , and one on my windshield . Got several shout-outs , but only one finger . My answer to the latter , a BIG SMILE and a victory sign .
Obama- Biden 2012 .

[KurtNYC]

2. you need to look at the cars which are in elevators

of course

[railsback]

22. I don't believe many of the 1%

live in Arizona.

[rox63]

64. No, but there are quite a few Mormons in AZ

Many of them will likely vote for Rmoney, although they may not put a sticker on their cars.

[railsback]

70. Lots of Mormons in Nevada, too

Obama has a good lead there.

[slackmaster]

3. I've seen only a few in California. Our states are both being ignored in this election.

I haven't really seen very many Obama 2012 stickers here either.

They're both seen as "gimmes" by the two candidates, so very little money is being spent here.

[bayareaboy]

45. I just love being already spoken for ...

No end to end commercials.

In fact in the east bay area the only folks who have bumper stickers are Moms and Dads of soon to be honor role students, Nobel Prize Winners and a few tea party fruit-cakes who you look out for anyhow. What is that thing about having to use a step ladder to get into your car?

[4th law of robotics]

4. I've only see the occasional bumper sticker period

those for Obama seem to be weathered, like they were from 2008.

I wonder if people all around are just not enthusiastic about this race?

[phantom power]

5. I've seen a couple, but...

I've seen more Sarah Palin stickers and Ron Paul stickers (and anti-Obama stickers) than "for-Romney" stickers.

[ananda]

6. That's amazing!

I haven't seen any Romney signs or stickers here either.
But that's to be expected cuz Austin is a laid back
radical bastion.

[JanetLovesObama]

7. Here

I was driving around up here looking at houses over the weekend (half way between Austin and San Antonio) and was stunned when I saw two Obama yard signs. That's two more than I saw in 2008.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. I just saw the first one this weekend.

It was in Red Wing, Minnesota, on a big honkin' SUV with a bunch of flag stickers, driven by an old white guy.

That's the only one I've seen yet. Lots of Obama stickers, some from '08, lots of new ones.

[Andy823]

9. I live in Eastern Washington

It's a very red part of the state. There are signs up all over for the republican candidates, county, state and national, but I have yet so see one for Romney!

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Seen a few around here, but very few...

and hardly any yard signs.

What really amazes me is with a hot repeat of the close House in '10 race there are NO Bishop or Altschuler signs around. None, nada, zip. (I'm not counting the one or two by party bigshots or family members)

This means to me that there will be a dismal turnout. Obama isn't exciting people like he did last time, and Romney is a embarrassment. No coattails to hang on to for the lesser races.

Ergo, why bother to vote? That is the question.

FWIW, isn't it generally accepted that old farts always vote while everyone else comes and goes? Most of 'em seem to be Eisenhower Republicans, but a lot us newly minted old farts forged in the '60s are replacing them, although not so much with their instinct to vote.

[Ron Obvious]

11. Saw my first yardsign for Romney yesterday

I haven't seen any bumper stickers for Romney, but to be fair, I've only seen a few old Obama stickers.

I did see my first yardsign for Romney yesterday though. It stood out to me, beacause I realised I hadn't seen a single pro-Romeny sign of any kind before here in western WA state. Must have been a Mormon household.

I can't imagine too many people voting FOR Romney in any case. The man has virtually no charisma or personality that I can detect. I can imagine many people voting AGAINST Obama though, especially if the economy doesn't improve. Many voters are that shortsighted, I fear.

[XemaSab]

12. I live in a hugely Republican, hugely Mormon part of California

where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fundie or a teabagger and I have seen two Romney stickers.

[NightWatcher]

13. I see tons of anti Obama stix, but no Rmoney (and shockingly fewer ron paul)

for a while here it was all ron paul and anti Obama stix. Now it's just "take back America" or "stand up for America, be an American ( I dont know what that means)

[area51]

14. I live in Texas,

and have only seen 1 Rmoney bumpersticker. Normally I'd expect to see them all over the place.

[justabob]

48. same here

I saw one the other day, and one a few weeks back. Yard signs too are completely absent. I have seen exactly one house (an estate actually) with Romney signs outside their gates, but they are heavy duty republicans. GOP presidents/vps always go to this house when in Dallas. I live on the edge of a heavily republican neighborhood and would normally expect to see a lot more love for the GOP candidate.

I see Obama stickers very often, both old and new vintages.

[uponit7771]

65. +1 I live near KKKonderLund TX (aka Mansfield) and NOT ONE STICKER!!

[HopeHoops]

15. Same here (PA), but there a SHITLOAD of Obama stickers (including mine) and some McCain leftovers.

[mary195149]

16. At this time, in San Diego

I've only seen a handful of Romney bumper stickers but once he announces his running mate, we'll start seeing many more.

[slackmaster]

47. I agree, and I think bumper stickers are going to be just about all we see of Romney/Cthulhu 2012

Or whoever he picks. Bumper stickers are dirt cheap. The R campaign is not going to spend a lot of money for TV or radio ads, billboards, etc. on a state that is a lost cause for them.

[Jazzgirl]

17. I live in North Central Texas and have never seen a Rmoney sticker.

I still see Obama stickers and Ron Paul but never have seen Romney stickers or yard signs.

[JoePhilly]

18. I've seen exactly one Romney sticker in Wake county NC.

[Ganja Ninja]

19. There aren't any in Florida either. n/t

[RockaFowler]

23. I haven't seen them here in SoFla either

I see a lot of those "End of an Error 2012" stickers, though. They can't even be original. We used those in 2004

[catbyte]

20. I live in SW lower MI in the heart of Dutch Mafia territory

and I have seen one Romney bumper sticker. I've seen close to a dozen Obama stickers and my "I Ride Inside! Cat Division DogsAgainstRomney.com" bumper magnet gets at least a couple thumbs up every time I drive.

This is all completely unscientific, of course, but I saw similar ratios in 2008 and the county I live in went Blue for the first time since 1964. I think the polls are not nearly as close as they want us to believe.



Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

[goclark]

21. I have a post here at DU

saying the same thing!

I took a 2 week vacation in Florida, Louisiana, Texas.

We drove through Alabama, Mississippi.

I did not see one bumper stick, billboard, t shirt for Rmoney ~ nothing for MITTwit, nothing.

I am African American and I wear a pretty bracelet that spells OBAMA.
I got several positive comments about it from friendly people in restaurants.

Everyone was friendly to me and to my family members on vacation with me.

We truly loved the "Southern Hospitality."

[ipfilter]

24. I haven't seen a single Romney sticker in Oklahoma

but still see plenty of McCain/Palin and even W stickers.

[mentalsolstice]

25. Same here in Alabama

I live in a blue congressional district, however, the burbs can be pretty red. I remember seeing a lot of W stickers, a few for McCain, but so far none for Romney. OTOH, I've seen plenty of Obama 2012 stickers.

[progressivebydesign]

30. You're right. I remember a huge number of W stickers and McCain stickers the last few times.

But really, no enthusiasm for him at all. If they ran a write in campaign with Perry, he's probably get more votes than Romney.

[aikoaiko]

27. There are no bumper stickers because they really don't like him

But they will vote for him because he is not Obama

By the way it's same here in GA. Few to any stickers signs or tv ads

[progressivebydesign]

28. I have to agree. I actually have seen only one NEW Romney sticker in my Gop-leaning area.

Saw one the other day on an elderly woman's double min cooper, as she left her expensive gated community. Other than that.. I had seen some earlier in the summer, two actually, left over from the primaries. Otherwise... it's ALL Obama. And my area is around 60/40 Republicans, LOTS of retired military.

I really question the narrative that Romney has the same or more followers than Obama. Considering that 60% of Romney's, non PAC money, comes from only THREE families. He has only 40% of regular donors (and of that, I doubt it's lots of $30.00 donations.)

[railsback]

29. Guaranteed

Arizona is in play. About 3 months ago, Obama had a 2% edge. Now it shows Romney ahead by 10. Highly unlikely for such a massive shift when Romney has been bludgeoning himself on a daily basis. 18% were still undecided at that point, also. Romney probably does have a slight edge, but nowhere near 10 points. The Obama campaign needs to get in there and make sure the Arizonans know that the GOP plan to fund lower taxes on the wealthy is to cut into mortgage deductions tax write offs. This is a state that banked everything on the housing bubble, slashing their state taxes, thinking the housing market would fund everything. Now they're hemorrhaging $2 billion a year.

[ThatsMyBarack]

31. Just west of Chicago....

I have seen only one or two Romney stickers so far.

All the rest is Obama as far as the eye can see!

[DonRedwood]

32. saw my first one today in oregon

road tripping and saw my first romney sticker. When you spend an entire day on the highway and don't see a single romney sticker, that's saying something. saw lots of obama stickers...both old and new.

[BlueToTheBone]

33. Come to think of it...in Arkansas

I've seen none .

[thelordofhell]

34. Arizona is teabagger heaven..........and teabaggers HATE Rmoney

Even in major Mormon areas, you don't see any Rmoney stickers

[riderinthestorm]

35. No Rmoney stickers but I've seen TWO Sarah Palin 2012 stickers

Northern Illinois, District 14 - Denny Hastert's old district (now occupied by Teabagger Randy Hultgren).

[agent46]

36. On the other hand

I noticed on FB yesterday that Romney's page has almost 3 million likes. Although, I supposed they could have been bought.

[citizen blues]

50. Or they're trolls challenging the bullshit that get said there.

[berni_mccoy]

37. He hasn't picked his VP yet... that may have something to do with it.

The campaign might be waiting for that moment before selling a ton of bumper stickers.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

39. I saw a Romney lawn sign on the next street over yesterday.

I was not fucking happy.

Also saw some idiot with Romney and Scott Brown stickers all over his truck yesterday.

[Ian_rd]

40. That's because even "they" can't stand Romney

I finally saw one two days ago and did a double-take because I realized that it's the first one I've seen. I'm in East Tennessee - not exactly an Obama stronghold.

Even the people that will vote for him can't stand him. It's all about hating Obama, not liking Romney. And even if the lack of bumper stickers means a disadvantage in voter contributions, well, Citizens United fixed that problem for him, didn't it?

[Matariki]

41. Rich people don't put bumper stickers on their million dollar Maybachs

So it's probably the Romney overlooked making them?

[bayareaboy]

53. But the slightly less rich have no problem ...

doing their Hummers with lots of chrome and bumper stickers. But I have not seen too many of them. I really haven't really seen too many Hummers on the road lately. Are they up on blocks in the back yard or have our Hummer drivers wrecked them all?

[Initech]

42. I've seen maybe four or five around where I live.

[Chakaconcarne]

46. havent seen any in OR...

Looks like another person saw 1. I still see palin / mccain stickers from time to time and a random bush/ cheney.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

49. SW Washington. I haven't noticed stickers for any of the 2012 prez candidates.

Of course, it is a given that Obama will easily win the state.

[Ineeda]

51. ??????? I'm wondering

if they're mostly holding off until the convention, because the nomination isn't "official" yet. I don't think I've seen one single "I'm Mitt Romney and I approve this message" ad on TV. Some pro-Obama ads and a few anti-Obama PAC ads though, and no, zero, zip, nada yard signs for either party. And I live in Florida! We'll be deluged soon enough though.

[gollygee]

52. I saw one on a Prius

Blew away every stereotype I've ever had. LOL.

I haven't seen many though.

[otohara]

54. The "Meh" Candidate

nobody wants to think about him... much less advertise him!

[handmade34]

55. maybe

most know Romney can't weather the campaign... and that he will drop out of the race...

that said, over the past couple of months traveling from Florida to Texas and now back East (South Carolina), I saw only 1 Romney bumper sticker (in San Antonio)... but more anti-Obama stickers (example: Psalms 109:8 --- 1/20/2013 )

although... even more, Yah! Obama stickers!!


**did notice the Chick-Fil-a's were packed here in Columbia today

[Mopar151]

56. NH has plenty of Rommney signs

Often next to Odious Lamontagne signs - fair # of Ron Paul signs, too. A few Obama lawn signs - but lots of Obama bumper stickers of all sorts.

[NNN0LHI]

57. I live in one of the reddest areas of Illinois and still haven't seen one

[Chemisse]

58. The polls have supported the 'close-race' narrative

Not counting the one that came out this morning.

While we could reason that it is to the benefit of both Romney and the media to maintain that it is a close race, we can't argue with the poll numbers.

[tallahasseedem]

59. I saw my first and only Romney sticker...

up here in Philly (well crossing over into NJ on the Walt Whitman) a couple of weeks ago. The first one EVER! What does that say?

[IggleDoer]

60. Saw one Romney sticker here in Arizona.

It was for Jess Romney who is running for Justice of the Peace.

[2Design]

61. not seeing either - too early - Florida

[Jester Messiah]

62. Teabaggers don't much care for Mr. Romney.

They'll hold their nose and vote for him, but that's about as far as they'll go.

As for a "close" race, yeah... check out electoral-vote.com for the story on that one. It's not even close, Obama's wiping the floor with him.

[billky]

63. Romney bumper sticker

Well I live in Kentucky and I don't have a chance. I'm voting for Obama anyway. I have a beat Romney sticker on mine, somebody will probably blow my car up. Republican is all they know here, I don't know why. I'm voting anyway.

[33Greeper]

66. Question: Why don't we see very many Romney bumber stickers out there?

Answer in the form of a Question: Is it, perhaps, that there are too many militant leftists out there with sharp keys?




....

Relax, it's just a joke!

[Ford_Prefect]

67. Could it be a calculated choice by the state party brain trusts?

I was told both parties in North Carolina are saving money by not producing and distributing as many stickers or signs because research says the internet has more impact on their core voters. I also heard that there were teams hired to remove or obscure signs for democratic or non-teaparty candidates. I was told this by a party insider so I give it some weight here in NC. There were surprisingly few signs or stickers used by either party during the lead up to the primary.

In NC there are relatively few signs or stickers as compared with previous campaigns. We expect that to change towards the end of the campaign season. I wonder just how much fear technique is behind it. The idea that you do not want to show who you are committed to until a key point seems counter-intuitive. On the other hand if you believe you will be attacked for having a political view...

We have a divided state on many issues with a huge deficit of real information vs Corp-O-News. It is also an old and regrettable practice here for some NC Democrats to avoid association with national office races to avoid being attacked as too liberal for NC. With all the money dumped into the GOP campaigns for TV and Internet attacks one can appreciate the reasoning if not the result. Ugh!

[CrispyQ]

68. I've seen a few Ron Paul stickers - no Romney.

I've seen several Obama 2012 stickers - a couple still had their '08 sticker, too.

[onenote]

69. I've seen a few here in the DC area. I'm sure we will all be seeing more

once he picks a running mate. Once the ticket is set is when the bumper stickers and yard signs typically start showing up.

[just1voice]

71. Hint: the entire mainstream media narrative is bullshit, but sadly

the race for prez of the United Corporate States of America is very close, half the people in this country actually respect criminals like Robme for being able to get away with their crimes as they too wish they could get away with.

The other half will vote for someone who won't hold the very same criminals accountable for anything and caters to big criminal banks, simply because he's not as bad as the other candidate, or so they think.

Moreover, it's doubtful that a person's vote even matters where elections are easily manipulated and most information is pure propaganda. It's a nice fantasy to imagine that people aren't as dumb as they are but it's just a fantasy, they really are that dumb, that criminal and that easily bought.

[Brother Buzz]

72. I have seen exactly ONE Romney bumper sticker in California

It was on a vehicle with Alaska plates.

[marlakay]

73. I know its weird

I just went shopping in next big town over 80% red and lots of signs but zero for Romney…weird thing is they are just completing a brand new large mormon church….so whats up??? Are mormons not allowed?

Also one of my neighbors is mormon…not a peep from him.

[MadrasT]

74. One Romney,onne Obama

SE Pennsylvania.