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Journal pudge's Journal: Partisan Roundup 13

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John Kerry was visiting just two towns away from me, but I didn't feel like getting out to demonstrate my support for Bush in front. Too bad I missed it though, because a middle aged Kerry supporter punched a teenaged Bush supporter in the face. Who needs the Olympics with that kind of entertainment? Although since I saw both on TV, I guess I made the right decision.

I put Bush and GOP bumper stickers on my car. Recently, some moron put a "your SUV sucks" (paraphrased) bumper sticker on there. I showed them! I also put some GOP candidate signs in my lawn, for three local candidates I like: Dino Rossi for governor, Mike Vaska for attonrey general, and Val Stevens for state senator (incumbent).

I also got a Bush yard sign in the mail this week, I'll put it up soon. I am going to have a Bush-watching party at my house for the neighborhood this Thursday night, and got some stickers and buttons and signs and cups. And, of course, I got some volunteer forms for people to sign up to do stuff for Bush, and absentee ballot requests as well (parties and candidates love absentee ballots).

Accompanying the paperwork was a DVD of the Kerry on Iraq documentary. You can just download it, you don't need to get the DVD.

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  • I usually don't participate in putting up all the advertising gear because they tend to serve as targets for defacement more than they do to pique interest in the candidate or party. Defacement is bipartisan according to anecdotal evidence and heaven help you if it's a third-party sign.

    I assume it's more about getting the person who puts up the advertisements to feel invested in the candidate than anything else; perhaps to spur them into more political discussion and campaign donations? Nobody I asked s

    • I assume it's more about getting the person who puts up the advertisements to feel invested in the candidate than anything else; perhaps to spur them into more political discussion and campaign donations? Nobody I asked said they voted for a particular candidate because of a sign (got curious the last presidental election) but it does seem to serve as a general reminder to spark conversation and get to the polls.

      There are two points to these signs. The first is education. Most of the people who see my s
      • I am interested in the loyalty oaths though... hmmm, seems very, I don't know Communist/Facist to me.

        As far as the signs being a show of support in an otherwise liberal area, I agree with that. I live in a overtly hard-core conservative place and I feel a rush of solidarity when I see "Kerry Edwards" stickers. Similarly, my Patriot Act T-Shirt with Bar Code from Angry Left [cafepress.com] gets thumbs ups and strangers saying "I love your shirt, let's vote that bastard administration out. My wife's One Nation Under Su [cafepress.com]

        • I am interested in the loyalty oaths though... hmmm, seems very, I don't know Communist/Facist to me.

          There is that, yes, but it is not illegal or an abridgment of free speech, as best I can tell. I personally would not sign a loyalty oath, though I might sign something that says I would not heckle at an event, or somesuch.

          Also, I wouldn't read too much into the loyalty oath thing, because I saw only one example of it, and it was so poorly written I wouldn't necessarily attribute it to the campaign.
  • I work on 7 & 35th or _the Yellow Zone_ and frankly I've been having a lot of violtent fantasies lately. I suspect the first Violence For Kerry type would land me in jail for 25 to life.

    I can hear Bloomberg now: They're our guesst we don't beat our guests to death with Thinkpads...
  • The article you link to said:

    "One man holding a Kerry sign was arrested when he punched a man holding a pro-Bush sign."

    It seems odd for you to say "teenager" ...

  • You placed lots of signs out in your yard? I thought you lived on a dead end street. [slashdot.org], far away from any traffic.

    Hmm...I'd suggest pulling out your signs, ordering about 100 more, and then randomly sticking them on a lawn next to a highway (preferebly a hard core Democrats lawn). It'd be great for laughs, and many more people would see them before they're pulled out. =)

    • We're the first house on this end of the street, and there's a couple dozen houses past us; also, people who turn to another area of the neighborhood just before our house could see them, too.
      • You're luckier than me.

        I wanted to help out a candidate running in the 2 man Republican primary for governor. He's an excellent politician, a good family friend, and my mutual fund advisor. Unfortunately, my street is very low traffic (only those 25 or so that live here drive through it), and he lives half a mile away, so 100% of our neighborhood was voting for him anyways. Sometimes its no fun when you're in a politically homogeneous environment.

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