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Where are the bumper stickers?
American Thinker ^ | August 10, 2016 | Inge Kummant

Posted on 08/10/2016 7:35:03 AM PDT by SakoL61R

Something strange is going on in Ohio. There don't seem to be any bumper stickers. I drive almost 100 miles a day on a major four-lane highway in northern Ohio. In the last two weeks, I saw one Trump bumper sticker in the parking lot of a grocery store, one Trump window-cling on a pickup truck on the highway, and one "I heart Hillary" bumper sticker at a rest stop. That's it. Four years ago, in August 2012, Romney and Obama bumper stickers were plentiful. It's a similar story with yard signs. A handful of Trump signs sprouted up during the primary – rarely more than one or two per small town, and often none at all. I have yet to see a Hillary sign. Last week, as the media piled on Trump following the Democrat convention, I'd had enough, and I pasted a "Trump, Make America Great Again" and a "Never Hillary" bumper sticker (from the Rush Limbaugh website) on my 2002 SUV. Maybe I was also inspired by a classic rock station that reminded this elderly boomer of how it felt to be "Born to Be Wild." My 18-year-old self would have been contemptuous of giving in to fear. I hadn't really been worried about getting my car vandalized, but I was worried about social ostracism by the Democrats in my neighborhood. p>

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"A wave of bumper stickers could make it safe to talk about and vote for Trump."
1 posted on 08/10/2016 7:35:03 AM PDT by SakoL61R
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To: SakoL61R

Howie Carr’s poll on Monday was Are you afraid to show your support for Trump. 63% Yes.


2 posted on 08/10/2016 7:36:39 AM PDT by MGG
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To: SakoL61R

Candidates used to give signs and bumper stickers away. Now they sell them. Plus, people don’t know where to buy them.


3 posted on 08/10/2016 7:37:21 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: SakoL61R

You want your car vandalized by a person who hates Trump. No more bumper stickers. You don’t see Hillary either.


4 posted on 08/10/2016 7:37:24 AM PDT by ncfool ( We are in the United Socialist State of aMeriKa. The USSA. Sheeple of aMeriKa follow hil-LIAR-ly)
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To: SakoL61R

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/7/scott-adams-dilbert-creator-endorses-hillary-clint/


5 posted on 08/10/2016 7:37:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SakoL61R

In my travels I have seen two yard signs for Trump and two bumper stickers.

But I’ve seen about the same amount for the Life Alert candidate.

In Massachusetts.


6 posted on 08/10/2016 7:38:32 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: SakoL61R

On a recent 800 miles trip in Texas, we saw two Bernie bumper stickers, two Trump, and one for Hillary. The bumper sticker companies in China must be wondering if we are having an election this year.


7 posted on 08/10/2016 7:38:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SakoL61R

The only current sticker I saw yesterday while walking through a large parking lot was one for Gary Johnson. I’ve seen a few for Hillary around the homosexual neighborhood.


8 posted on 08/10/2016 7:38:45 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: SakoL61R

Would also make the vehicle prime target for the tribe.

I don’t have the time to ‘defend’ a yard sign all hours of the night nor fool with the insurance company on a keyed car (or worse) with a $1000 deductible when the perp is a mau mau who don’t have crap, don’t make crap, and don’t give a crap because he/she’s just a ‘kid’.

What I DO have is a frigging vote and there is no one on this earth that will stop me from getting to the polls and voting for Donald J. Trump.


9 posted on 08/10/2016 7:38:46 AM PDT by Gaffer (Muslims are the tall grass in which Jihadi terrorists hide undisturbed.)
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To: SakoL61R

I hadn’t really been worried about getting my car vandalized, but I was worried about social ostracism by the Democrats in my neighborhood.


This sums it up. Nowadays people are afraid of getting their cards vandalized, or getting into confrontations with kooks and crackpots, if your car has bumper stickers expressing opinions on candidates or issues.


10 posted on 08/10/2016 7:39:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SakoL61R

On a recent 800 miles trip in Texas, we saw two Bernie bumper stickers, two Trump, and one for Hillary (in backward Austin, of course). The bumper sticker companies in China must be wondering if we are having an election this year.


11 posted on 08/10/2016 7:39:31 AM PDT by txrefugee
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There don't seem to be any bumper stickers.

People don't want their cars keyed or their tires slashed.

2016 is not a Presidential campaign, but rather a sitzkrieg, and everyone knows this, even if they don't know the word, or its French equivalent, drôle de guerre.

12 posted on 08/10/2016 7:40:44 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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You risk having your car vandalized if some activist yute with ties to BLM or some rockheaded member of a labor union does not like your sticker.


13 posted on 08/10/2016 7:41:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I drove 11,000 miles and saw Bernie all over…a few Trump signs..Hillary maybe one

This was May and June

Best spots on the 11,000 miles Tetons and San Juan Islands


14 posted on 08/10/2016 7:41:26 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: SakoL61R

When you can be pretty sure your car is gonna be “keyed” if
you dare stick a TRUMP sticker on your car, it’s pretty
tempting just not to do it.


15 posted on 08/10/2016 7:41:56 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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Lack of Hillary stickers due to lack of enthusiasm. Lack of Trump stickers out of fear of vandalism.


16 posted on 08/10/2016 7:42:05 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: SakoL61R

There is no enthusiasm about either one.


17 posted on 08/10/2016 7:42:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: SakoL61R

After $700 damage to my car, I no longer put Republican bumper stickers anywhere!


18 posted on 08/10/2016 7:42:08 AM PDT by gartrell bibberts ( White privilege...the harder I work, the more privileged I become.)
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To: Twinkie

Mine was in 2008 for my bumper sticker.


19 posted on 08/10/2016 7:42:46 AM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: SakoL61R

I’ve noticed the same. I have noticed Trump signs but there are zero Hillary signs in my area. Also there has been no Clinton folks in my area. Obama had folks all over Central Virginia. I stopped here in NC where I’m working and the local GOP office was all out of Trump materials.


20 posted on 08/10/2016 7:42:58 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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