# How long after I apply this "I Love Obamacare" sticker will it be removed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384 "2012-08-23T15:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/1 "2012-08-23T15:07:42Z")
I made a donation and got this [I (Heart) Obamacare sticker](http://dccc.org/pages/i-love-obamacare). I’ll put it on my car later. I live in a fairly conservative county (the home of [this fine facility](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum)) so I wonder if it will be peeled off the car, or if someone will go the vandalism route. You can vote on the outcome of my sticker experiment! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/2 "2012-08-23T15:12:48Z")
Put me down for “car vandalized”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/3 "2012-08-23T15:14:29Z")
I’ll be more optimistic and say “not removed but defaced”. But if it doesn’t happen within two weeks, you’re probably safe. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/4 "2012-08-23T15:17:41Z")
I’ve wondered the same thing about putting an anti-union stiker on my car, but I don’t want it to get keyed or a widow smashed, so I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/5 "2012-08-23T15:18:30Z")
I’m in upstate SC, and have a couple Obama stickers. I’ve had a person or two make nasty comments while I’m stopped at a light, but no ones actually messed with the stickers. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/6 "2012-08-23T15:32:36Z")
I used to have a **Stupid People Shouldn’t Breed** bumper sticker. The folks that _should_ have been offended weren’t bright enough to understand my point.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/7 "2012-08-23T16:32:19Z")
I got tired of seeing all the Obama stickers years after he won the election. I responded by putting “I want my Change back” and Gadsen flag bumper stickers on my car, not vandalising someone elses. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/8 "2012-08-23T16:37:36Z")
> [@Mdcastleman](#): > > I got tired of seeing all the Obama stickers years after he won the election. I responded by putting “I want my Change back” and Gadsen flag bumper stickers on my car, not vandalising someone elses. I still see the occasional McCain/Palin stickers around, which seems like it would be kind of depressing if you were a GOP supporter. In the 80’s, one of my neighbors had an old car with a Kennedy/Johnson bumper sticker. So apparently, people are pretty lax about removing stickers, even once they’ve become moot. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/9 "2012-08-23T16:41:40Z")
A friend had a “Eat a Queer Fetus for Jesus” sticker defaced after about a month. He suspects his mother. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/10 "2012-08-23T16:43:50Z")
I put “Not peeled off, but somehow defaced”, but it may stay forever. But on the other hand, I had a bumper sticker on my old car: Lost your cat? Try looking under my tires I had five bumper stickers on this car (the bumper was smashed in, and it was ugly already), and none of them could be considered remotely offensive, except this one. Still, I got a very long, evil death threat note stuck under my wipers from a person who claimed to be Christian. So you never know. I never put anything remotely political or controversial on my car now. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/11 "2012-08-23T16:52:04Z")
I went with vandalism. It is like putting a bullseye on your car. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/12 "2012-08-23T17:13:26Z")
[Here](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2004/10/political_poseur.2.html) is an interesting story from 2004 about what happens when you walk around in campain shirts from the opposite party as the local consensus. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/13 "2012-08-23T17:17:08Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Put me down for “car vandalized”. Right. Because nothing makes a point more agreeable than wanton vandalism. :rolleyes: (The snark isn’t aimed at you, **Der Trihs** ; it’s aimed at those who think destruction of property is an appropriate response to a different viewpoint.) ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/14 "2012-08-23T17:18:01Z")
I wouldn’t think people would be 1. offended enough and also 2. stupid enough to actually deface a car for having decorations they don’t like. But my sister had a ‘Hang up and Drive!’ sticker on her car and it was torn off, wadded up and put beneath the windshield wiper. Seriously, what the hell? Why are people so stupid? And no, I’m NOT new here, lol. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/15 "2012-08-23T17:35:21Z")
I find it incredibly unlikely that it will be removed. If it is then it further demonstrates to me how different American culture is to mine. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/16 "2012-08-23T17:40:47Z")
It will peal off on it’s own during the car fire. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/17 "2012-08-23T18:18:47Z")
I chose that the sticker will be defaced. Basically a attempt at peeling it off but not completly successful. Happened to any of the stickers I put on my car back when I lived in Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/18 "2012-08-23T19:18:53Z")
My guess is that nothing will happen. Even in very partisan communities there are still lots of people rooting for the other team, so it’s not like people aren’t used to seeing stickers or yard signs they disagree with, but still managing to be civil about it. (I was curious, so I checked [here](http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html): a third of your county voted for Obama.) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/19 "2012-08-23T19:21:00Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > It will peal off on it’s own during the car fire. Sorry, but this was freakin’ hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/20 "2012-08-23T19:24:59Z")
I’m guessing nothing will happen but it only takes one jackass. And jackasses are everywhere. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384.md?page=2)