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?
