Anyone else noticing less Bush bumper stickers and signs than in 2000?

[funkybutt]

I'm in New Orleans, and it seems to me people for Bush aren't nearly as likely to proudly display his signage as they were in 2000.

This is a good thing...i've seen more Kerry stickers on cars than Bush stickers. I've only seen a couple of Bush yard signs...no Kerry yardsigns that i've seen so far, but I'll be getting one soon.

[Jacobin]

1. Way way way fewer Smirk/Dick bumper stickers in my

(red)neck of the woods.

:-)

:bounce:

His minions are not happy.

[buycitgo]

2. chicago suburbs......haven't seen any of either

[MuseRider]

3. I have seen nothing.

It seems nobody in my little part of the world is engaged with this yet. I expected a lot of Bush* stickers or signs but I have not seen them.

[KLF44]

4. Where I live

it is a very strong repug stronghold and I have seen more Kerry bumperstickers and NONE for Bush so far.

[ChickMagic]

5. I saw possibly the most disgusting one

It said "Support our President and our Troops". Egad.

[funkybutt]

7. EEWWWW! that is a nasty one

[ChickMagic]

17. It is, isn't it?

I told my hubby I wanted to move into the house next door and put out a yard sign that said, "Support our Troops - Oust Bush!"

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. Saw a couple of those

I thought to myself, If they only knew how * treats the Troops and Vets, would they still display those stickers? I wonder? Otherwise I haven't seen alot of stickers for * or Kerry.

[CheshireCat]

6. I'm in SC

and I bet I haven't seen 5 Bush stickers this year. In 2000, they were on one half the cars that I'd see.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. I'd say he's overfertilized

his grass roots. They're dead.

[nostamj]

10. of course you mean

he shit on them... right?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

13. Human excrement is no good.

:)

[nostamj]

27. and bush-bowel-elimination-related-activity-products

are much worse!

[bluestateguy]

9. You want to go for a drive in rural East Texas?

I did last month, and over there they use Kerry bumper stickers as toilet paper.

[lastliberalintexas]

29. Yeppers

Sadly, I've probably seen even *more* Shrub bumper stickers this time around. Still see a few for Edwards and Dean, have seen ONE Kerry.

However, I do see Texas Democrat stickers all the time, so maybe that's even better than one that just says a particular candidate's name...

[w13rd0]

11. I've seen a couple...

...interestingly enough though, there were two residents in my neighborhood that a couple months ago were sporting Bush/Cheney2004 stickers, and one that still had on a Bush/Cheney2000 sticker. The Bush/Cheney2000 has been notably scraped off the truck it was on, and the status of the two 2004. One has been covered by a Jesus loves you, is the feeling mutual, and the other was covered with a Dean sticker.

[topherX]

12. I've seen one Bush bumber sticker

thus far this year. My father-in-law proudly parades it on his car. I withstood my temptation to cover the bush sticker with my Democratic Underground sticker. ;-)

Reporting in from Chicago burbs.

[funkybutt]

40. you've got more restraint than i do

i did a similar thing this weekend :)

[topherX]

48. No restraint?

I'm interested in hearing more. Did you replace one bumper sticker with another on someone else's car?

[gratuitous]

14. The guy around the corner from me

I've posted about him before. He had two stickers on the bed cap of his pickup: One saying "Sportsmen for Bush" and the other touting Gordon Smith as Senator for Oregon. About the time of the Abu Ghraib pictures, the "Sportsmen for Bush" sticker was rather badly torn off, leaving a couple of jagged stripes. The Smith sticker remained unchanged. His truck (late model, nicely maintained) stayed in that condition for several weeks.

Just a couple of days ago, he'd apparently gotten serious about the sticker, and the Bush one was properly removed, as was the Smith sticker (!). I don't know if this guy's had a change of heart, an epiphany, anti-incumbent fever, or what, but where there were two Republican-friendly bumper stickers prominently displayed on a busy street, there are now none.

I smile to myself each day on the way to the bus.

[demnan]

15. I parked my car next to another Kerry car

and a Dennis Kucinich car parked next to me! There we were in a Lake Ridge, VA parking lot all in a row.

I've seen a few Bush stickers but lots of Kerry stickers.

[Scottie72]

16. Very few Bush

I have seen maybe one actual Bush bumper sticker.

I have seen a handful of Kerry stickers and some anti bush stickers.

One car that parked near me in a Costco awhile back had one of those oval "location" stickers on it. It had ABB (anyone but bush)

They also had a bumper sticker that said: "Like Father, like son out in one term!"

It made my entire day! I was hoping that they would be coming out at the same time just to give them a thumbs up!

[Az]

18. Saw Bush Sucks scrawled in the dust of a panel truck today

Actually I am seeing far more antibush signs than probush signs. Even know a large number of people the voted Bush but are swearing never again.

[Caution]

19. Granted Im in MA

But i just saw a Bush/Cheney sticker for the first time since january yesterday. I keep an eye oiut for this stuff but they are almost impossible to find in eastern MA at this point (I do most of the rt 128 loop which is the primary boston commuter route every day).

[spinbaby]

20. In rural Tennessee

I was in rural Tennessee (Crossville) over Memorial Day. I noticed a couple of Bush/Cheney bumper stickers, no Kerry bumper stickers, and at LEAST a dozen anti-Bush bumper stickers. I saw the "Four More Wars" version several times. Kerry may not be winning them over, but a lot of people deep in bible-thumper territory hate Bush.

[Lars39]

26. That's encouraging.

Especially for that area. Where I'm at, there is an absence of any kind of political stickers for the most part, let alone anti-bush or anti-war.

[mwar]

21. On the road to Wisconsin last week...

On a pickup truck plastered with NRA and Harley Davidson stickers there it was. A Kerry sticker on the back window of the cap for all to see. What a country!

[daa]

22. In Atlanta

I have seen very few for Kerry or $hrub. Lots of $hrub commercials and that's it.

[stanwyck]

45. Also in Atlanta

and I've been gratified by the number of Kerry stickers I've seen. Even in my whitebread suburban neighborhood of Tucker. Yeah!

[Neecy]

23. from KC...

I have yet to see a single Bush* bumper sticker, I've seen perhaps half a dozen Kerry ones. This includes the Kansas side of the state line.

Good move on the part of the Kerry campaign to give out the free stickers on his website.

[Enraged_Ape]

24. "He's Saving Your Ass, Like It Or Not"...

with a picture of the Chimp. Saw it just yesterday.

On a giant smokewagon SUV, driven by a guy that looked like a more milquetoast version of Wally Cox.

I would have thrown up, but I was laughing too hard.

[trogdor]

35. smokewagon - that's a new one.

I love it!:yourock:

[funkybutt]

41. that's pretty disturbing BUT

i couldnt help laugh too w hen i read your post!

i hope he saw you laughing too :)

[Mr Switters]

25. I'm shocked in East Tenn

to see more and more Kerry stickers everyday. I even conduct "elections" when I'm doing my errands to see who wins based solely on the number of Kerry vs Bush stickers I can count on the way to the bank/store/ect. Kerry has been winning with greater frequency lately...

In my office building alone there are 3 Kerry stickers on cars and no pro-Bush.

I'm not sure if this is a result of the Kerry campaign being more engaged on the ground? Of course I don't live in the suburbs, so that place could be awash with Bush propaganda. Has the Bush campaign really kicked off it's local field offices?

East Tenn is a very conservative area, but I think it would be too much to call it a Republican stronghold. Most people are starting to realize that showing your colors for Bush after all the BS he's thrown at the American people is a sign of a serious personal character flaw.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. I looked at all the cars and trucks parked near the school at the

last board meeting.

NO bumperstickers whatsoever. But bear in mind that our town (not my section but overall) is very well-to-do. Maybe bumper stickers are too low class for them?

I did see one car with a sticker finally and it was anti-W. :)

[cmf]

30. Well, in 2000 I lived in Texas, and now I live in Washington

So, yes, I see a lot fewer Bush* signs. :D

[HawkerHurricane]

31. Here in San Diego

Politics usually run the gamut of middle right to far right... but there are Kerry stickers visible in rising numbers, where in 2000 Gore stickers were few and far between.

And during my visit to Los Angeles over the weekend, there were nothing but Kerry stickers on the freeways.

[calimary]

46. I've actually seen three bush/cheney2004 stickers.

Two are in my neighborhood (YUCK!!!) Down the street, two houses side-by-side. They've been there for awhile. One of the cars has a Dump Gray Davis sticker still on it, too. So - consider the source. Probably somebody unreachable. Farther up the street, though, are a couple more cars with Kerry stickers, fortunately. I did see some nice Mercedes driving down the street with a bush sticker on it, just about the same day as I saw a PT Cruiser with an "Impeach Bush" sticker on it, parked up in the Village. But mainly it's pro-peace or anti-war stuff, more and more Kerry stuff, quite a few Kucinich stickers, still, a couple of Wesley Clarks, and LOTS of anti-bush.

There's another mother at school in a minivan who's just added "Let's Not Elect Him in 2004, Either!" to her back bumper. That makes TWO of those specific stickers just in our school parking lot. The other one belongs to one of the teachers.

What I DO NOT like seeing are the ripped posters all over the place. There is a guerrilla artist here in So Cal named Robbie Conal. He does poster-sized caricatures of various public personas, with some very clever captioning on them. Suddenly, overnight, you'll see them plastered all over town, on signal switcher boxes and other spots. There's a new series of anti-bush ones, with captions including "Read My Apoca-LIPS," and "Let's Play Armageddon!" They're just great! Infuriatingly enough, however, somebody's gone around with spray paint, and obliterated many of them, especially around my neighborhood. Or, they're ripped to pieces, at least partially or in some cases mostly. There's some knuckle-dragger around here who just WILL NOT let this guy's art be seen. During the recall, there was an Arnold poster put up all over the place, with the caption "Achtung, Baby!" and it, too, was ripped all over the place, and right away, too. It's distressing.

[porphyrian]

32. Tallahassee, Florida

I have to say that, even here, it does seem like there are fewer stickers than in 2000. And most of the ones I've seen around are the stealthy little oval "W '04" ones rather than the big blue Bush/Cheney ones. We can't rest yet, but I'm feeling more optimistic than I have in almost four years.

[skippysmom]

33. I see a few

but this is MA, which is Kerry country.

The one I hate the most is "So glad I voted for Bush." Dude, you're in a state whose electoral votes went for Gore -- your vote didn't matter at all.

[tom_paine]

36. Yes. I have seen ONE TINY BUMPERSTICKER

We'll see if it increases.

He is a Soviet man, that Bunnypants*, and if his Phony Gallup Polls have him LOSING 49-44, then his real support numbers must be about 25%.

But we'll see. This may change as time goes on.

[Demeter]

37. No Stickers Here--But this is Ann Arbor

Or as the Freepers would say, the Peoples Republic of Ann Arbor.

Did see a couple of interesting alternatives, though:

EXFOLIATE BUSH

&

HALLIBURTON/ENRON 2004

[OpSomBlood]

38. Orlando, FL is definitely Bush Country.

You see every variety:

W '04
Bush/Cheney 2004
I Proudly Support President Bush and the Troops (this one is the worst)

There are more anti-Bush stickers on the roads than pro-Kerry ones.

[callous taoboy]

39. Absolutely!

And this is Mepublican Central.

[SiouxJ]

42. They're embarrassed

I'm in big time Shrub country and I've seen more Kerry sticks than Shrub. There were tons in 2000. They'll probably still vote for the idiot but they just don't want people to know they're that stupid.

[funkybutt]

43. my point exactly

they'll still vote for him, but they don't want to broadcast it b/c then they might have to get into a discussion about it and defend him...which of course is impossible!

[stanwyck]

44. Parked next to a Kerry sticker

at the gym. I told the guy I liked his bumper sticker. He was surprised since I have a Semper Fi sticker on my back window. (compliments of my brother-in-law...in honor of my son). We talked politics. He's a guy who says "he never much cared" about voting or who won. Now, he does. I told him I needed to get a Kerry sticker, too. It will go nicely with the Semper Fi.

[Marymarg]

47. In Texas

Fort Worth, to be exact, I have seen two pro-Bush and two pro-Kerry (not counting mine.)

For this part of the country, I consider this great.

[Ms. Clio]

49. I wish I could say that

But I have seen several Bush/Cheney stickers and not one Kerry sticker yet. In fact, I saw a big sign on on a pickup that simply said "Bush 04 (no VP even!) I CAN'T WAIT TO VOTE."

Depressed the fuck outta me for the rest of the day. It didn't help that a few days later I saw a car with a flag sticker on the gas tank.