Maybe a useless observation? [View all]

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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