Shadow Wrought's Journal: First McCain Bumper Sticker Sighted

I saw my first McCain '08 bumper sticker yesterday. It was pretty small, but it was there! Obama stickers are pretty easily found, but I have been surprised that it has taken this long to see a McCain sticker. Granted Portland generally swings to the left (taking the rest of the state with it, usually), but in the last election Bush and Kerry stickers were fairly evenly split. This time, not so much.

Not that that means much on a grander scale, but I thought it was interesting, especially since I've been seeing Obama stickers pretty much ever since he announced.

We don't like McCain...

[FroMan]

We don't like McCain. At least we are not fired up about him.While McCain is better than Obama in a conservative's view, it is hard to get excited for someone when they are "just not as bad." Palin is who conservatives are excited about. When McCain picked a conservative/libertarian running mate the conservatives finally had something to be excited about. But what you will notice is still missing is excitement about McCain. Obama knows this, or at least his people do. They are attacking Palin for anyt

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[smittyoneeach]

It's going to be interesting to see the debates.
From a purely technical standpoint, BHO is the more gifted speaker. JSM's voice is either a standard insomnia treatment, or a high-pitched squeak as he gets excited.
BHO deals in high abstraction, which sounds stirring, and JSM is well-read and could bore people to death with historical detail.
Difficult to say whether JSM can connect and inspire with debates.

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[smittyoneeach]

For all of the reasons you site, you have to look at the candidate and come up with some personal guess as to whether they would sell you down the river.
As you've noted, they could be lying, or worse, poorly advised.
But, as regression tests go, debates are one of the only ways you get to see them think on their feet.
So, are they crap? yes. Do we have many alternatives? no.

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[Shadow Wrought]

I have a great many reservations about both (what's new?) but I must say that Obama is a very gifted speaker. I wonder if my lifetime will ever see an election where I get to vote for a presidential candidate that I want in office.

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[smittyoneeach]

Obama seems great at the set-piece, teleprompted speech.
It's less clear how well he thinks on his feet.
If McCain had ummed and ahhed at Saddleback like Obama did, the pirahna of the left would have devoured him.

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[Captain Splendid]

But what you will notice is still missing is excitement about McCain

No kidding. You might as well swap 'em around. I figure she's got a better shot at the White House than McCain does.

just an anecdote

[Red Flayer]

Friday morning on my drive to work, I saw two VW Beetles (new model). One was red, the other blue. The red one had an Obama sticker, the blue one had a McCain sticker.

It struck me as mildly humorous.

At any rate, I see plenty of stickers for both McCain and Obama, but far less for either candidate than I saw for Kerry or Bush last election.

I'm not sure if there's any significance to my observation that there are fewer bumper stickers this election, and I'm not sure if there really *are* fewer bumper sti

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[Shadow Wrought]

The number of nbumper stickers really does seem to have tapered off up here. I remember thinking in the last election how sick I was of all the bumper stickers and signs everywhere. This time around I'm kind of surprised when I see them.

McCain Bumper Sticker

[Aumaden]

I saw a McCain/Palin bumper sticker the other day. At least I figured out that's what it was supposed to be when traffic stopped for a light. Most unfortunate choice of font and kerning. The horizontal strokes were about 50% of the size of the vertical, making the the foot of the "L" in "PALIN" disappear. The "I" in "PALIN" was offset to the right causing it to appear to be part of the "N". As a result, when viewed from a distance it read: MCCAIN PAIN

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[Shadow Wrought]

Bumper-sticker quality control: just one more trade wracked by budget cuts;-) That's kind humorous though. You ownder how many they printed before someone noticed: assuming they even did!