My business travels around the tri-state area, for my plant's heavy machinery deliveries, shows me and my delivery crew, that the suburbs/rural areas are 95% for McCain-Palin, and that the inner-city slums/hellholes are solidly for Obama-Biden. This is purely-based upon "lawn signs", which we see and note, on our delivery clipboards. Very "informal reporting", isn't it?
My 2 other delivery teams, in 14-15 nearby PA counties, report almost the same ratio of McCain/Obama lawn signs. Who knows what that really means?
Just for "grins", my ass't foreman and I developed a MS-Word-based, 8" x 10" clipboard form, which gives each truck/driver/2-3 deliverers, a quick-and-easy tally sheet, to use in tallying-up the number of each type of lawn signs, which they see. Still, pretty "informal", but at least we're trying to tally what we see, on our delivery/routings.
God Bless America!
Seeing the same thing up here in Williamsport/Lycoming County area.
Overwhelming signs for McCain.. Probably 5:1 in Williamsport.. Probably 8:1 in outlaying areas.. In 2004 I would say Kerry signs outnumbered Bush 2:1 in this area.
Nice job and neat system. Any feel for 2000 or 2004 by comparision if you were doing it then?
My neighborhood/town in S FL is fairly Repub but the number of McCain signs versus Bush 2000/2004 is a lot more McCain signs. Maybe 2 times more McCain signs. These people are VERY motivated to vote against Obama. They have a few bucks and know Obama will take EVERYTHING they have. The few people who I know are Dem (from seeing Gore & Kerry signs before) including hard core Hill/Kerry/Gore people do not have any Obama signs up.