Maybe a useless observation?

[cab67]

Maybe not.

I attended a professional conference last week. It was in the midwestern state just to the north of mine, so I drove there.

Most of the route was rural, and not surprisingly, there were occasional signs advocating Kamala Harris' main opponent in tomorrow's election.

A couple of things struck me, though -

First - there weren't nearly as many such signs as I'd expected. Driving through the same region in 2020, they'd be everywhere. I wasn't counting, but the big almost-billboard-sized signs often seen in on private property in the countryside were not that common.

Granted, I didn't see any large Harris-Walz signs, but the scarcity of signs supporting the Orange One was striking.

Second - many of those I saw weren't Trump-Vance signs. They were Trump-Pence signs.

Not sure what this means. Most likely, these were people who saved their signs from 2016 and/or 2020 and simply re-used them. I'm sure they know perfectly well that the VP candidate this year is Vance, not Pence. So it probably means nothing. The font and arrangement are the same. But I still found it odd.

(One wonders if part of the rationale in picking Vance was the close similarity in name with Pence, which would have made making new campaign signs far easier and cheaper. Just switch "PE" with "VA.&quot

[SheltieLover]

1. You're thinking too hard.

Many magats are 100% illiterate, so the vp name won't matter to them.

[cab67]

2. Of course I'm thinking too hard!

I'm a professor. They actually pay me to think too hard.

[SheltieLover]

3. Yes, I know.

I used to be a professor as well and I still always overthink things. LOL

[usonian]

4. Just "hanging with Pence"

[Torchlight]

5. My observations from home align with yours.

I live in TX in a county adjacent to Dallas. The town has seven stop lights and a Main Street straight out of Any Griffith. Eight years ago, the place looked like Red Square on May Day what with all the banners, posters, stickers, t-shirts, etc.

Four years ago, not so much. Almost more typical of of what I'd expect in a normal election year in TX. This year though, nothing at all. Other than the isolated trump sign sitting in the window of an army surplus store front, it would be difficult to tell there's an election going on anywhere.

Bad Me is often tempted to poke the bear around here and ask those questions about their support for the guy, but to be honest, I've been kinda enjoying the laid back feel, and Good Me realizes no good will come from stirring a hornet's nest.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. We drove through 3 red states to get to a family event last weekend.

We saw almost no Trump signs or flags. When we went in 2020, they everywhere! These are midwestern states. We only saw one in Oklahoma which was shocking to us.

[rsdsharp]

7. There's a guy who lives about a block from me. The last two elections he had multiple Trump-Pence signs in his yard,

including a very large one. This year he has one small sign, and as you observed, it’s still a Trump-Pence sign, although he has pasted a VA over the PE in Pence to make it a homemade Trump-Vance sign.