Yard Sign Wars
Interesting thought about yard signs today.
The strange arms race for bigger and better candidate signs seems to be kicking into high gear. Many people talk knowingly about who has signs where as though the health of a campaign can be measured by square footage of ad space.
It has been my experience these last few months, that, when asked about the signs in their yards, people either shrug and say they just appeared there one night, or they explain that someone's brother knows their cousin and asked them to put a sign up. In either case it had nothing to do with their actual vote, nor do the signs seem to be particularly persuasive to the motorists for whom they are meant. If signs are of so little value, why are some candidates' entire budgets devoted to signs?
The strange arms race for bigger and better candidate signs seems to be kicking into high gear. Many people talk knowingly about who has signs where as though the health of a campaign can be measured by square footage of ad space.
It has been my experience these last few months, that, when asked about the signs in their yards, people either shrug and say they just appeared there one night, or they explain that someone's brother knows their cousin and asked them to put a sign up. In either case it had nothing to do with their actual vote, nor do the signs seem to be particularly persuasive to the motorists for whom they are meant. If signs are of so little value, why are some candidates' entire budgets devoted to signs?
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So this is my favorite story regarding signs. I went to a house last week and saw that some signs in the yard really didn't go together politically. After talking to the Husband for a bit he was really upset that these other signs had appeared and he went out to take them down. I asked him if we could put some up. He agreed. I came back a few hours later to put a sign. His wife was home and she came out to tell me she had agreed to put up signs the other signs because she wanted the canvassers to go away and the were rude and wouldn't leave until they could put a sign up in the yard.
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