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FIELD REPORT

I just drove 950 miles from our house in the south San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain View) to our house in North Idaho north of Coeur d'Alene.

The South Bay has been Ground Zero for progressivism for ages.

It took me over two hours to get out of the Bay Area with the rush hour traffic on Tuesday afternoon.

I was watching carefully for any bumper stickers or campaign signs.

I did not see a SINGLE "Harris / Walz" sign or bumper sticker. In 2008, probably a third of the cars had Obama / Biden stickers on them (you still see them today, too). I did not see a SINGLE "Harris / Walz' yard sign.

Going north on I-505 (connects I-80 to I-5) and getting out of the urban areas, I started seeing "Trump" signs in the farming and ranch country. I continued to see "Trump" signs all the way up US-97 through California and Oregon, too. By the time I hit Washington State, it was too dark to see any roadside signs.

I spent the night in Redding, CA and took long rest stops in Bend, OR and Moro, OR. Not a single "Harris / Walz" sign ANYWHERE! And I was looking carefully.

I did see several sequences of "Burma Shave" style signs supporting Trump along US 97 near Bend.

So, almost 1,000 miles of Interstate and US Highway driving from late Tuesday through Wednesday without seeing a single "Harris / Walz" sign or poster and many "Trump" signs. But I did not see any "Trump / Vance" campaign signs.

That is quite remarkable.

“That is quite remarkable.”

It gives me hope, but the GOP has found a way to booger things up when they seem hopeful.

Here in the blue part of Ohio my neighbor has a yard sign that reads:

“Veterans against Trump”

Makes me want to punch him in the face.

Thanks for the report, and appreciate your life story on your Freeper page. You have been blessed to have had a wonderful dad who took you on those cross-continental roadtrips in your childhood.

Congratulations on having 2 houses. Your report above is fascinating. All I can conclude is that there is not the kind of organic excitement for Harris that there was for Obama. Obama was a genuine star, while she is not. But I don't know if that translates much into voting outcome or ballots. It could be that the ballot harvesting machinery of the Democrat party is so sophisticated in 2024 (unlike in 2008), that they can do without grassroots enthusiasm.