Waukesha has been hit with an explosion of McCain signs

[Connonym]

In my nonscientific sampling of Waukesha neighborhoods (via schlepping my kid around town) Mccain is outnumbering Obama 3:1. This includes only a sampling taken from driving through the city of Waukesha -- no suburbs or subdivisions, just plain old "working class" type neighborhoods. I'm very depressed.

[elocs]

1. McCain signs I am betting are free and given out like candy.

simple answer

[samdogmom]

2. Well the only signs I've seen in my neck of the Wisconsin woods are Obama signs.

There are Obama signs in yards that had Bush/Cheney signs four years ago. I have not seen one McCain yard sign yet!

Keep the faith. Maybe when Waukesha Obama supporters see all of the local McCain signs...they'll fight back and put up Obama signs.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Oddly, I am seeing quite a few Obama stickers/signs quite a bit here in Lake Country

And I've only ONE McCain sticker. Though, I did see a Romney one during the primaries that cracked me up.

[HereSince1628]

4. Suburbs of Waukesh...that's fun in a suburban geography sort of way...

I've never thought of Waukesha as anything but as one of the suburbs of the Milwaukee metro area and a rather reddish suburb at that.
3 red to 1 blue sounds to me like a better than average year for Dems in good ol' Waakeeesha.
I suppose when the old Waukesha Engine plant was running and the founderies were pouring most of the day everyday Waukesha probably thought of itself as an un-suburb. But that's decades and decades ago.

Pondering suburbs of Waukesah is an interesting exercise in local geography...I suppose Saylesville could be considered to be a Waukesha suburb...I guess you could include Goerkes Corners...what others would you include?

[Connonym]

5. I don't consider Waukesha a suburb of Milwaukee

My attempt at differentiation was between the city of Waukesha, i.e., the commercial downtown area and the city residential areas to differentiate that from the explosion of tonier subdivisions that have popped up around the outer edges of the city and/or town of Waukesha.

But this brings up an interesting question to me -- am I unusual for thinking of Waukesha as a city in and of itself and not as a suburb of Milwaukee?

[eyesroll]

6. When I lived there, it was a city in its own right. Now that I don't, it's a suburb.

:D

(I lived in the Carroll College neighborhood, on a middle-class, pretty darn Democratic block in an otherwise Republican zip code.)

It's all relative, I guess.

[HereSince1628]

7. I think of suburbs as bedroom communities...places people go to sleep

rather than go to work.

That isn't to say that no one lives AND works in Waukesha, but that most people head out of Waukesha to work somewhere else.

I was raised in Elgin Il. A city that was larger than Chicago for a time, and a place where there was a trading board for milk that set prices for the entire midwest. When I grew up there, it was a place that grew from about 25000 to 30,000 with 1/3 or so of them employed in industries directly related to support of the watch industry of which Elgin Watch Co. was the largest employer in town. Most people lived and worked in Elgin. By the time I returned from Vietnam, the place was near 60,000 and growing fast (though not as fast as the corridor between Chicago and Aurora). Elgin and Waukesha are very similar places, and both are on the same river, both with similar backgrounds in light to moderately heavy industry, both survive now that their industries are a shadow of their past as good sized mid-western towns. But most people who live there don't work there. Consequently in my humble opinion both are suburbs.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Our freaking neighborhood over here has TONS of them.

This place looked really liberal for awhile-- lots of Obama stuff when I moved up here last year, but the yuppies over a few streets have put up signs like nobody's business. I've seen 5 or 6 within two blocks. :puke:

I have to drive out Capitol to Sussex every day, and pass a bunch that way too. It's all very disheartening.

[ginnyinWI]

9. in my subdivision in Western Waukesha county

There are no Obama signs, but far fewer McCain signs this time than Bush signs four years ago. Still a bit early, but there seems to be a lack of enthusiasm so far for McCain. I saw two signs, and last election there were at least a dozen.

[midnight]

10. Do Waukesha residents know where to get Obama signs?

[dembotoz]

11. Probably caused by waukesha getting a sushi restaurant.

[emmbaffa]

12. McStain signs in Glendale too

This is my first post! Just signed up after months of lurking. I stopped by the Glendale Obama office for a yard sign to offset the neighbors'. No signs -- told me to buy online. I gave my fist money donation and told them Hilary sent me. GOT TO GET SIGNS AVAILABLE -- Now!

[dembotoz]

13. NEVER ending battle between local and non local dems

Local dems want signs
state and federal dems say
Yard signs don't vote...
Always same old montra
Like to remind them that radio ads don't vote either....
but waste of time.
They REALLY want you to buy it from the obama store and hope they ship it before november.
great fund raiser for them
Some of the local parties are ordering signs from them and elsewhere to sell.
Does not look like there will be any FREE signs anywhere. Maybe check the unions???
So some signs will be available.
They are on the way.
Truly is BULLSHIT but that is how it is being played.