Posted on 10/25/2012 11:43:45 AM PDT by StandAndDeliver1
In Northern suburbs of Chicago:
2008: Obama intensity overflowing in every direction.
2012: Have NEVER heard enthusiasm expressed for Obama. What I have heard is low-key excuses for Obama or low-key sniping at Romney.
I remember this from talking to some young people who were in college...they'd be walking along, minding their own business, and some black guy who was a stranger and maybe not a student on campus would yell at them as they passed..."Obama!" It could be unnerving because it brought with it an air of intimidation and threat. I wonder if those students are remembering that with a kind of cheer that they get to vote against that kind of covert thuggishness this time around.
There’s so many Democrats pissed off at Obama here, I think this time around we might even have some of the dead voting for Romney.
SE Montgomery County PA. This area has leaned democrat for the past 15 years. I am seeing about 3-1 Romney over Zero signs lately. Up until this week the Zero signs were about invisible. I am not seeing a lot of bumper stickers either way. I saw one nauseating “Another Mama For Obama” sticker, and I thought a good response to that would be a sticker that had “Another Mama with a Brain: Vote Romney/Ryan”. I commute into Philly every day and see more Romney signs. Also, lawns that were painted with Obama signs last time have nothing this year. My wife’s sister who voted for the Chair last time is voting Romney. She is a typical soccer mom, Oprah- watching type. I had another soccer mom compliment on my R/R auto decal. There’s hope here.
The sad fact is this: Even if Republicans are elected to a lot more national-level offices, the Federal Agency officials can not be easily removed and THEY ARE the problem.
>>> In Evanston, just North of Chicago, I’ve been around many blanks.
Te he he, I see what you did there.
In Miami. We see many more Romney signs than OBungler signs.
Heard my first report on the radio today of Romney signs being stolen and/or defaced on people’s lawns. The people doing that had better be careful, or someone will take a shot at them.
(This is, after all, Miami.)
Obama’s policies have hurt blacks more than any toher single group. Obama is not black—he’s red.
No Obama signs , rare Obama bumper stickers.
East La Habra—”East LH”—is a “blue” neighborhood in “red” Orange County, Calif. Nonetheless, a couple of Romney yard signs popped up on a nearby street in the last couple of days.
“I am in NoVa and where I live it is hard to tell there is an election in 11 days.”
Perdogg —I agree. Also a native of No. Va. and you don’t hardly see any political signs. Usually they’re all over the roads, the medians and lots of folks with bumper stickers. This year, I’m seeing very few yard signs...very few....and NO signs on the roads at all. (was their an ordinance passed banning them? There were plenty two years ago during the congressional races).
I see only a few Obama stickers and many of those are the 2008 ones on older cars. Fewer Romney —but if folks are like me, we’re keeping it close to the vest. No one talking up either candidate at work.... It’s almost as if no national election is going on in Northern Virginia....
Pat
I am in west Michigan and not many signs or bumper stickers at all. I have been pretty active talking to just about anyone I run into. I have yet to find ANY enthuiasm for Obama, plenty of rage against Obama.
In one city in ‘rat-heavy Lorain County NE Ohio, the obama headquarters has opened—this week. The disciples can’t get signs, and what signs there are, in neighboring counties, are virtually unreadable from the highway— tiny letters on a field of plain blue. Obama ground game in this part of Ohio sucks.
In Norman, Oklahoma, there are a few Obama yard signs around the campus in the neighborhoods and a few Romney signs (usually stuck in a yard near an Obama sign), but I haven’t seen an Obama bumper sticker in a long time, come to think of it. No one else seems to be mentioning this influence, but here in Oklahoma, our OKC diocese has made available quite a lot of material on the teachings of the Church regarding the major issues in the current election. The information is carefully non-partisan, of course, but very clear.
I haven’t seen any Obama signs in our little town - and plenty of RR signs are popping up.
Just this week 2 ultra liberals on my FB list have declared they will not vote for Obama because they saw the movie 2016.
They will, instead, vote for Gary Johnson
I live in Charlottesville, VA which would vote for Hugo Chavez if he was on the Dem ticket. Not nearly the excitement here as in ‘08. Had a Obama supporter stop by the house. We told him we were voting for Romney and his response was “seems like everyone is”. Then he gave us an Obama flier and said “here you can throw it away if you’d like”, so we did.
One of my neighbors had an 0bummer sign on the lawn in 2008. This time NOTHING. I have seen only two vehicles with 0bummer stickers and one was a sticker from 08.
And that is because I live in deep South Texas. It is all dumocrat down here.
BTW, I early voted this morning. Felt good. Had to vote early. If the Good Lord should take me before Nov.6th, at least I got to vote, once again, against the petulent one.
In Albuquerque and surrounding areas we saw TONS of Zero yard signs and bumper stickers in 2008.
This year, very very few yard signs at all - saw 2 the other day and they were the first. More bumper stickers than yard signs, but still I’d say maybe 10% of the bumper stickers we saw in 08. LOTS of the stickers we saw in 08 were the Spanish ones, “Si se puede” but I have not seen ANY of those.
In fact, the other day my husband found one rolled up and tossed into the shrubs outside our credit union.
One idiot down the street from us has a large picture of Zero in his front window.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.