# Has anyone seen any Romney bumper stickers or yard signs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 14, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143 "2012-06-14T14:51:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/101 "2012-09-23T15:47:07Z")
Here is lower upper New York state, about 2 hours north of the city, in a district that usually tilts a bit Republican but went for Obama in 2008. There are a few Obama signs in little hippie towns, and few Romney signs in between (and probably more handmade Ron Paul signs that either of them). Obama seems to be running ahead in bumper stickers, if you count the '08 ones, which outnumber the new ones. Maybe the matériel just hasn’t gotten here yet for either campaign. From this one can only conclude that the Ron Paul supporters are vandalizing yard signs while the Obama supporters are stealing cars. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/102 "2012-09-23T15:47:28Z")
Massachusetts, north of Boston in a fairly affluent exurb adjacent to a very wealthy exurb: Scattered bumper stickers, so far all Obama and none for Romney, though there are a few “Nobama”-type ones. Yard signs: Usually triple, for Obama, Warren (Senate), Tierney (Congress) or Romney, Brown, Tisei. Sometimes just Warren versus Brown, or Tierney versus Tisei. Numbers seem to be more or less even, though the blue team, while initially outnumbered, has been expanding its empire recently. As you might imagine, the red team signs tend to cluster in front of the estate properties. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/103 "2012-09-24T02:19:01Z")
I’ve seen a couple of Romney bumper stickers here, in the SF Bay Area. Pretty shocked to see them, actually. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/104 "2012-10-26T14:15:05Z")
Update: Now I see plenty of Romney stickers and signs. I think his campaign is pouring money into Ohio, so they’ve gone crazy with the signage. I was in an area just east of Cincinnati yesterday. Romney signs outnumbered Obama signs by at least 10:1 around there. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/105 "2012-10-26T14:28:30Z")
I live in California and there are Romney/Ryan signs EVERYWHERE in my neighborhood. Shocking to me, since our state is dark blue. Not sure what to make of it, but four years ago, this neighborhood was covered with Obama signs 😕 ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/106 "2012-10-30T15:00:18Z")
I just saw a Romney sign on my street - the same day I notice our sign has been stolen. :mad: We didn’t go with the standard campaign sign, as we wanted to make a little bit more of a point. So we actually had our own sign made: Registered Republicans for Obama 2012. Some jerk-off stole it Sunday night, but I didn’t notice till last night. Its kind of funny, on Sunday, some lady supposedly representing the Republican whatever of Iowa stopped by the house on Sunday to confirm that we would be voting, and I said “as you can see on the sign, we will be voting, but not for a Republican.” I’ll have to go to the Dem offices and pick up a couple of official signs to replace it with. Take it again assholes, and I’ll actually donate and volunteer for Obama. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/107 "2012-10-30T15:13:55Z")
Now there are 2 Obama, 4 Romney signs on our street. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/108 "2012-10-30T15:26:44Z")
Lots more Romney than Obama in Chicago suburbs. I think all it means is: a) home owners are much more likely to be Republican than the population at large, and b) Republicans are old and like yard signs. Democrats are skyping their twittery text MP3s or whatever the hell those kids do. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/109 "2012-10-30T15:31:19Z")
c) what’s the point of putting up an Obama sign in Illinois, anyway? (At least with a Romney sign, you’re shaking your fist against the SYSTEM, man.) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/110 "2012-10-30T16:32:12Z")
I see a mix, though when I am driving more rural I see more Romney signs. I live about an hour northeast of Pittsburgh, PA. Fortunately, I also know a few businesses to avoid going forward. Including one between my place and Monroeville that has a “Vote for the **Americans** Romney and Ryan” sign. I wanted to take a pic, but I was driving. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/111 "2012-10-30T17:00:24Z")
On my street, it’s now two Romney signs (on two of the four mansions) vs one Obama sign (mine). ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/112 "2012-10-30T17:51:22Z")
I’ve seen lots of Romney signs and slightly fewer Obama. In my neighborhood, I’ve seen ONLY Romney signs, but I’ve noticed the vast majority of households (mine included) don’t have any signs. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/113 "2012-10-30T17:55:21Z")
Big huge Romney signs along the freeways that run through agricultural valleys, on land owned by big huge agricorporations which use wetback seasonal labor. Wild eh? The Obama signs are in windows and on lawns of the college town I live near. Who would have thought. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/114 "2012-10-30T17:56:58Z")
Tons of Romney signs in my area, only a few Obama. My favorite is the house that has several Romney signs - two of them right next to each other say “I Vote Pro-Life!” and “I Support Religious Freedom!” Also included in that yard: the standard Romney/Ryan sign, a “Be Calm and Vote GOP” sign, a “Vote like your freedom depends on it, because it DOES!” sign, and another one that has an eagle or some crap with some stuff about religious freedom and abortion or something. West suburbs of Chicago, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/115 "2012-10-30T17:58:35Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > I live in California and there are Romney/Ryan signs EVERYWHERE in my neighborhood. Shocking to me, since our state is dark blue. Not sure what to make of it, but four years ago, this neighborhood was covered with Obama signs 😕 California is dark blue on the coast and dark red inland. Could that be it? Really I see far fewer signs of any kind than last time, and those few are mostly Romney. Although there is a pathetic Ron Paul billboard I pass a lot. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/116 "2012-10-30T18:00:48Z")
Ours is a fairly affluent neighborhood in Texas, lots of entrepreneurs, doctors, etc. The overwhelming majority are Romney signs. I sure saw a lot in Colorado last week too. No Bama stickers on trucks, Romney/Ryan on ranches, etc. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/117 "2012-10-30T18:48:20Z")
I’m in an upper-middle class neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas. Nearly all the signs that are up are Romney-Ryan ones. Only a single Obama-Biden sign on the two roads that I regularly traverse in the neighborhood. My across the street neighbor has about seven signs for all the Republican candidates on the ballot, but she’s an outlier, most houses have just the R-R sign. One house has had a lawn chair on the front lawn for the past month. Charming. Oddly, 90% of the signs all appeared at the same time, over a weekend about two months ago, not long after the convention. Obviously a crew of R-R volunteers must have swept through the neighborhood while I was out or they knew I was an evil librul by the look of my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/118 "2012-10-30T20:12:31Z")
Here in PA, it’s an impotent display of a few Romney signs here and there. One homemade job cries out for us to save America by getting rid of Obama. I haven’t bothered to put out an Obama sign, just because PA is pretty much a done deal. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/119 "2012-10-30T20:22:53Z")
Like here in New Mexico…we are pretty much already in the bag for Obama, not that we have enough EVs to really matter anyway. I haven’t seen many signs, but lots of bumper stickers (mostly Obama ones though…and a few McCain/Palin ones still bumping along). ---
**Author:** ![C6541](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@C6541](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C6541)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143/120 "2012-10-30T20:43:44Z")
There’s a lot of Romney/Ryan signs around me, driving me nuts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-any-romney-bumper-stickers-or-yard-signs/625143.md?page=7)