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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs I drive around, I've noticed that very few cars around here have bumper stickers...
I have a bunch (DU front and back, Turn Off Fox News, the blue Democrats one, several Obamas - just a couple of non-political ones - Ocracoke Beach and profile of a labrador retriever).
so it got me wondering if there was a correlation between political activity and bumper stickers - do most of those who don't have them prefer not to make their views known? Or just are not politically active?
Hence this poll! Just curious....would love to hear about reasoning for what you choose to do.
I never, ever had them until the 2000 then 2004 election thefts -starting in 2004, wearing my lefty stickers with pride (and always amused at people's reactions to them).
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No bumper stickers on the cars | |
8 (53%) |
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One sticker - political | |
2 (13%) |
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One sticker - not political | |
1 (7%) |
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Numerous stickers - mostly political | |
4 (27%) |
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Numerous stickers - mostly non-political | |
0 (0%) |
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Can't see the paint color of the car for the stickers | |
0 (0%) |
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Other | |
0 (0%) |
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OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I just don't want to mess with my car. Of course I'd never put a political sticker on. I don't want my car keyed.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)tires slashed!
Codeine
(25,586 posts)They just look tacky to me.
banned from Kos
(4,017 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Very subtle, easy to overlook.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Too many teabag loons with TruckNutz, gun racks, and low IQ's on the road today.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)either. Last thing I want is some nut tanked up on my bumper in the middle of the night looking for a fight or target practice.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I do use a magnetic bumper sticker thingy around elections.
I am not wealthy enough to pay cash for cars ... I'll be damned if I am going to slap stuff on a vehicle I am paying 400-500 month for.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)I'm a chicken, I use a magnet Obama/Biden "sticker" that I remove when I'm in a parking lot.
csziggy
(34,141 posts)And they wouldn't be very effective since my truck seldom leaves the farm. The last time it was started was about two months ago and it probably won't be started for another two months unless my husband needs it for something.
During the 2008 election I put my Obama bumper stickers on magnetic sheets and took them off when I went somewhere I was worried about right wing nuts. But they both came off at some point - stolen or blew off along the way into town.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)and simply will not use it as an advertising platform for anyone or anything. I personally think bumper stickers look trashy and don't want them on my car.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Dean
Boxer
Save Churn Creek Bottoms (Which was actually put to a vote here in Shasta County and WE WON!)
Grow Native
No W
So yes, they're all political!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Goodness knows there are already enough shopping centers to go around.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)as the "Wait a minute, if we move the shopping to the south of town, what happens to the existing shopping areas IN TOWN?"
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)had in the early 80s when I visited a friend at UCD who was really excited because the city had passed an open space law.
Even so, it is still something these days if a city even wants to protect its downtown shopping area. Back in the '60s, my hometown's downtown was a vibrant shopping area, but big shopping centers were built that siphoned away almost all of the business from downtown, leaving it a husk of its former self. And to add insult to injury, most of those shopping centers now are also mere husks of their former selves, with most shops lucky if they last more than a year.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)One was to lock in zoning in that area for 25 years, and the other was to build a huge shopping center in what is now a corn field. Both measures were rejected, so we might still get a shopping center, just not THAT shopping center.
madokie
(51,076 posts)is Obama and our car would be keyed before we got out of the store every time we'd go somewhere if I put an Obama sticker on ours. I think that is the mindset of many of us hence you don't see many bumpers stickers.
Looking at the size of the rallies at the rMoneys and Obama's rallies it's pretty obvious who most people are going to be voting for.
Can you say the largest landslide in American history. I thought so
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)And that's not even counting the Darwin sticker and a couple other ones on the bumper and since I took that picture I've added about 4 more.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I can't afford to fix my car if some demented freeper doesn't like my views.
rgbecker
(4,835 posts)People ask where I got it etc.
Of Course I have my Obama stickers, 2008 and 2012 and then there's one that says "Got Science?"
Folks, if its so bad you can't even sport an Obama sticker during an election year, there is no hope for America. Get rid of the fear...put the sticker on your rear window where it will come off easily when you go to sell the car. Listen to FDR. Time to stand up for our guy.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and now we can't. As working journos we can't.
In fact, we are also registered as no party preferred (aka indie)... which is a GOOD thing... we get crap from EVERYBODY!
Raine
(30,548 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)a bumper sticker and someone keying the car or worse. I'm not sure how much good bumper stickers do than to piss off someone in traffic ... there's already enough road rage without trying to incite some jerk.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Care to tell us what it is, exactly? I'm a bit of a classic car buff, ya see.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Raine
(30,548 posts)in mint condition beautiful original paint etc. Just the thought of it being keyed gives me nightmares.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Raine
(30,548 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)handmade34
(22,759 posts)all my bumper "stickers" are magnets! pic is from my car months ago... now I also have a "travel bug" (geocaching) on the car...
had a rainbow magnet and Obama magnet stolen off the car in California last fall...
driving from Miami to Tallahasse today, I noted how few bumper stickers are on cars (esp. Romney or Rebub stickers)
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)but not one Romney sign/sticker anyplace. I have seen a few Obama yard signs.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)other stickers are magnets ....FF/EMS ... and the other is yellow ribbon ...
NRaleighLiberal
(60,040 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)taped to the inside of my pickup truck rear window. There is a teabagger here in town who has his car plastered with right wing bumper stickers. I can't remember them all, but the one I do remember says "Liberals make me sick". I see him a couple of times a week and I always try to get in front of him so when we are at a stop light he has to see my sticker LOL.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I live in CT
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)That'll come off and something anti-Romney will go up.
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)I don't like bumper or car stickers because they junk up your car. Also I don't feel like politically engaging every Texas right winger on the highway. I've already been run off the road once.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)nice car, red Calif, not in this lifetime
TlalocW
(15,394 posts)Partly because bumperstickers lower resale value of a car (although I drive cars til they fall apart...), but they also give nutjobs an easy target when parked. Put the bumpersticker on the magnet, put the magnet on the car, and then take them off and throw them in the trunk when you park.
This also allows you to update your message to keep up with current events.
TlalocW
abolugi
(417 posts)Vietnam campaign ribbon right now. My hubby is a vet...
But i SWEAR I'm gonna get one that says " I brake for tailgaters" so the hemorrhoids riding my ass are forewarned!! It's not like I drive slow!!
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Bumper stickers do not lend themselves well to vehicles with no bumpers i.e. motorcycles.
Thegonagle
(806 posts)Vote No on Minnesota's constitutional amendment to Limit marriage to opposite sex couples.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)TBF
(32,160 posts)a school sticker, a couple of non-political (they are small) and a dogs against romney sticker. My car is old so it isn't that big of a deal.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)No bumper sticker. In THE CITY we don't need a car. One uses public transportation.. be it Bus, Trolly car, Cable car, Light Rail, Rickshaw, or Taxi. One can also chose to use bicycle or feet. This city is not that big...and a bumper sticker would look poorly on the back of my jeans.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)I would never put any political bumper stickers on it, regardless of whether I'm in a liberal-leaning area or not. You never know who is a conservative and who isn't.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)might take is a bumper sticker to set some wacko off into road rage or whatever.
mucifer
(23,634 posts)Siwsan
(26,333 posts)That way people can see it, but can't steal or deface it. Unless, of course, they break my window. I did the same with my Kerry sticker.
Both are of the 'Veterans for' variety, and I've never really had any trouble from other drivers. I figure if they don't like the politics, maybe they think I'm driving my husband's car. I have gotten a number of 'thumbs up'.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)I just don't think they are really neccessary and they tend to drive down the resale value so I just normally don't attach them. To each their own though.