Damn those campaign signs! Just a short quip (3094 hits)
Category: Politics -> Election 2004Rating: 1.67 on 18 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Jonukah (View user info) at 2004-11-02 14:12:03 EST
There is one thing that I really hate about election season: Campaign road signs.
I really don't understand it. If you really support your candidate and want to put a bumper sticker on your car or a little sign in your front yard to show your partisan loyalty, fine. Good for you.
My problem is with all the damn littering. In my little outing to West Virginia last weekend, I drove by hundred and hundreds of these damn things. Apparently, WV doesn't have any restrictions on how many campaign signs, truck tires, or mullets you have on your own yard, or any public property for that matter.
Do people think they actually make a difference? If a Republican puts 50 Bush/Cheney signs up at a public school, do the Democrats need to be damn sure they come up with 51 Kerry signs to make sure the election is fair? Can it possibly matter? Is there some subliminable effect that I don't know about?
Maybe it does <Vote Jonukah> make a difference in West Virginia. Maybe those few undecided inbred idiots that <Vote Jonukah> make it to the polls on their 1972 Dodge pickup will end up <Vote Jonukah> clicking on a candidate for the sole reason that they happen to recognize the particular string of characters in the <Vote Jonukah> candidate's name from seeing so many <Vote Jonukah> damn road signs. That is, only if they can work through the computerized system in the first place.
I don't know, maybe that is an unfair assessment of West Virginia.
But I do hate those signs. And they didn't shake my vote.
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Submitted by Seralena (user info) at 2004-11-08 21:52:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
MUST... VOTE... JONUKAH...
GIVE... SPEDMONKEY... +2s...
<shakes head>
What the hell did you do to me? Where am I? Who wrote "Jonukah" all over my laptop screen with a sharpie?
I'm confused.
Submitted by SuperGirlH (user info) at 2004-11-08 21:37:15 EST (#)
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Jon, dude, how come you're never on anymore? Do you have a new screen name or something? Holla!
-Heather
Submitted by slowlyrotting (user info) at 2004-11-02 18:28:37 EST (#)
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agreed
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2004-11-02 17:24:41 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by spedmonkey (user info) at 2004-11-02 16:53:51 EST (#)
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Wow. Subliminality is <+2 all my posts> really damn cool. I ought to try it sometime.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-11-02 16:08:30 EST (#)
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I swear that I don't know a thing about all of those Kerry/Edwards signs in my neighborhood with day-glo W's painted on them.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2004-11-02 16:05:27 EST (#)
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What I enjoy is when one person on the street puts up a sign and then a shit storm gets started. It is pretty telling as to how divided the country is when I go through the neighborhood and see a fairly even split of signs. Of course around here there is big controversy about people (gasp) stealing the signs.
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-11-02 15:24:27 EST (#)
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For some odd reason, I feel like voting for Jonukah.
Submitted by Durae (user info) at 2004-11-02 15:01:37 EST (#)
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so wait a minute, are you implying that by stealing bush/cheney signs this summer, I was actually cleaning the environment?
I like the sound of that argument.
Submitted by jonukah (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:44:42 EST (#)
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Nerfherder:
lol, I didn't even see that. Funny post btw
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:44:01 EST (#)
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Nice job cigar
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:40:40 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/50352
Quasi-warm off the presses.
Submitted by cigar.. (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:24:08 EST (#)
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I sell those signs, you FUCK.
Submitted by cigar.. (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:23:52 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by ardubs (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:20:57 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:16:56 EST (#)
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Most local governments have ordinances that could fine the candidate if the sign is not removed within 2-3 weeks.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:15:44 EST (#)
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I have taken a habit of kicking over all the signs put on public property
I'm such an asshole
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-11-02 14:14:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuckin shines, oops i mean signs