# How long to leave up a defunct campaign bumpersticker? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843 "2008-02-01T12:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/1 "2008-02-01T12:44:42Z")
My mom was very dedicated to John Edwards’ campaign, so you can imagine how disgruntled she is right now. She says she’s not ready to take the Edwards '08 sticker off her car, but she’s not sure how long she can leave it on before it becomes pathetic. Until the Dem nominee is official? Until the general election? Inauguration day? She’s definitely not replacing it, just removing it. Also, a mini-poll. What’s the most outdated (at the time) campaign propaganda you’ve ever seen? I saw a Dukakis/Bentsen pin in 1993, but that person may simply have forgotten it as part of a large array of pins. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/2 "2008-02-01T13:08:49Z")
If you’re in the right, keep it forever. I still have my Kennedy '80 pin. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/3 "2008-02-01T13:33:20Z")
I believe you can still get Wellstone stickers new to put on your car. They don’t mean the same thing anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/4 "2008-02-01T15:13:55Z")
The longer you keep it, the better. Stay the course! ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/5 "2008-02-01T15:19:27Z")
IMHO, the Edwards sticker should go before the general election. The losing Republican sticker should stay on until inauguration. I saw a Dole/Kemp sticker last week!!! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/6 "2008-02-01T15:19:46Z")
I’d love to cover my truck with all the ‘loser’ candidates bumper stickers from over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/7 "2008-02-01T16:50:50Z")
I kept my Chandler sticker on from the last gubernatorial election (2003) on for about a year; Kentucky put a Republican into office for the first time since 1967. I felt the statement was necessary. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/8 "2008-02-01T17:22:30Z")
There’s a “Perot in '92” sticker on a light pole I see every day on the way to work. Right above it is a Kinky Friedman sticker. I still have my Kinky sticker on my truck. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/9 "2008-02-01T17:25:48Z")
An Edwards sticker is already pathetic. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/10 "2008-02-01T21:03:35Z")
After moving from Chicago to Ohio, Eliot Ness of _Untouchables_ fame became the city of Cleveland’s safety director. In 1947, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor. A [sign from his campaign](http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/ness/21.html) was still visible during the time I lived in northeast Ohio, and apparently exists to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/11 "2008-02-02T04:31:41Z")
Okay, she says she’s going to leave it up as long as she feels like it. She’s also seen Wellstone stickers. Also, she has a McGovern sticker, though it’s just in a box with papers and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/12 "2008-02-02T05:10:16Z")
My Kerry/Edwards sticker stayed on my bumper until the car died and I had it towed away in February 2007. The fellow a few doors down from me had a Perot/Stockdale sticker on his truck, so I didn’t feel that out-of-date. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/13 "2008-02-02T12:31:53Z")
I say take it off. But I also say, if a person wants to put a cheap sticker on several thousand dollars worth of car, it is his/her right. ---
**Author:** ![Neptunian\_Slug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Neptunian\_Slug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptunian_Slug)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/14 "2008-02-02T13:57:43Z")
Mrs. Slug and I were Giuliani supporters. I have moved on to McCain and want to get new stickers. The wife will support McCain, but has told me that she will wait two months to replace the Rudy sticker. Maybe that’s a standard mourning period. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/15 "2008-02-02T14:21:03Z")
[QUOTE=Neptunian Slug] Mrs. Slug and I were Giuliani supporters. I have moved on to McCain and want to get new stickers. The wife will support McCain, but has told me that she will wait two months to replace the Rudy sticker. Maybe that’s a standard mourning period. [/QUOTE] It’s also how long it’ll take her to get that Clash song out of her head. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/16 "2008-02-02T15:28:40Z")
Is a Dick Gregory or Pat Paulson for president bumper sticker too old? * * * _“Humphrey, Humphrey he’s our man, Nixon is a garbage can!”_ sung by me in 2nd grade. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/17 "2008-02-03T00:58:31Z")
A car in our lot at work has a “Re-defeat George Bush in 2004” sticker on it. I hope that lasts another decade at least. ---
**Author:** ![Galena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Galena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galena)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/18 "2008-02-03T06:08:11Z")
I know an old cattle rancher who has both a Regan '80 sticker and a Greenpeace sticker on one of his trailers. Totally blows my mind. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/19 "2008-02-03T12:50:14Z")
I lost my old “Keep Cool With Coolidge” sticker a few years ago-anybody know where I can get one? Heck, it was only 1924! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843/20 "2008-02-03T19:16:38Z")
OK, I’ll admit I first came here with the juvemnile idea of making a “Reelect Honest Abe” carriage sticker joke, but the thread has got me to thinking, so I’ll hijack just for a second and turn it into GQ. . . Who were the first Presidential contenders to have a bumper sticker made for their campaign? An actual sticker designed expressly to be adhered to the bumper of a gasoline-powered automobile, not a placard or flybill to be tied or placed onto a carriage which was not adhered by glue or gummy stuff (technical term, that is). An actual bumper sticker more or less as we know them today. Sir Rhosis [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-to-leave-up-a-defunct-campaign-bumpersticker/435843.md?page=2)