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“If Trump won 70% of the vote, people would freely talk about voting for him. We would be the overwhelming majority and would overwhelm the Trump naysayers.”

Just anecdotally (I know...) I’m in a mixed ethnicity, blue collar neighborhood in a very blue county that was quite literally awash with Hillary signs in 2016. Any Trump sign would immediately be “taken care of” - we had to fish several out of the storm drain, but you never saw any on display. By contrast, in 2020, we saw a smattering of Trump signs and flags, and nothing at all for Biden. Further, a neighbor who did canvassing for Trump told us that of the people who would talk with him, there were 2 to 3 times as many voicing support for Trump as for Biden.

Same thing at the early voting polling place. A lot of Trump supporters, cars and trucks riding around the block repeatedly with Trump flags, honking their horns... people wearing red shirts, murmured conversations overheard in the waiting line... but any support for Biden was very, very quiet. The exact opposite of what we experienced in 2016.

Dropping this link here. Very interesting! Has it been shared yet?

WILL BIDEN HAVE INAUGURATION, ARRAIGNMENT, OR BOTH?
By
Howell Woltz -
January 17, 2021

https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/20190/will-biden-have-inauguration-arraignment-or-both/

Hmm. I had the opposite experience here.

I would say there was an equal mix of Trump and Hillary signs in 16. About a third of the signs were for Stein and Johnson.

This time around, there were far, far more Biden signs. I could not believe the numbers. It was not unusual to see 15 houses out of 100 with a Biden sign and only 1 for Trump. In 16, it was more like 3 for Hillary and 3 for Trump.

And all the downtown shops had BLM signs, no doubt half of them to deter vandals.

This is a high-Karen area.

I surmise that the teachers’ unions were big in pushing people to put up signs since they couldn’t host in-person campaign events.

The signs could explain why I, compared to others on the thread, heard more talk of people voting for Biden. The signs could have created some sort of bandwagon effect for him around here.