It is a curious sight driving around these days. Two months ago, the streets were laden with Obama paraphernalia stuck on bumpers, car windows, and windshields. I remember going to the grocery store in the Short North back in April and practically every other car had some kind of representation that the driver voted for the current President. At the time, it must have been a popular thing to do.
Today, this is not so much the case. In fact, I am hard pressed to find a handful of these stickers on cars anymore. Maybe you will see an abundance of them in liberal parts of the country, but even in Columbus and the Short North where it tends to be liberal, these stickers have disappeared in big numbers. I know in Youngstown, where majority of the people are Democrats (or so they think wrongly), it is unusually hard to find Obama stickers here anymore.
Some may argue that the political season is over and people are removing these items, but I find it a little hard to believe everyone at one time, en masse, decided to remove their stickers without having a reason.
The typical day of an American involves a number of tasks, including work, running errands, figuring out what to do for dinner, looking after the kids and bringing the kids wherever they need to go, paying bills, paying taxes, and trying to fit some social time in there so they do not go completely crazy.
Removing a political sticker of a person you support does not make that list. However, if you find yourself at odds with the person you once supported, then a person will in fact find the time to remove the item as to dissociate themselves from that person quickly.
The mass disappearance of these stickers lends more to the latter theory of people having problems with the current administration rather than the former theory that huge numbers of people in the U.S. suddenly found the spare time to remove the tedious sticker that is always difficult to remove. If you ever removed a bumper sticker, you know they are hard to get off.
Could it be that more people are frustrated with Obama and are, dare I say, embarrassed to have supported him now they see what he has been doing? It could very well be. It is quite curious indeed. Whilst this is just an opinion, I leave you to make your own judgments about this.
The Mang
Conservative Capo of Youngstown
Today, this is not so much the case. In fact, I am hard pressed to find a handful of these stickers on cars anymore. Maybe you will see an abundance of them in liberal parts of the country, but even in Columbus and the Short North where it tends to be liberal, these stickers have disappeared in big numbers. I know in Youngstown, where majority of the people are Democrats (or so they think wrongly), it is unusually hard to find Obama stickers here anymore.
Some may argue that the political season is over and people are removing these items, but I find it a little hard to believe everyone at one time, en masse, decided to remove their stickers without having a reason.
The typical day of an American involves a number of tasks, including work, running errands, figuring out what to do for dinner, looking after the kids and bringing the kids wherever they need to go, paying bills, paying taxes, and trying to fit some social time in there so they do not go completely crazy.
Removing a political sticker of a person you support does not make that list. However, if you find yourself at odds with the person you once supported, then a person will in fact find the time to remove the item as to dissociate themselves from that person quickly.
The mass disappearance of these stickers lends more to the latter theory of people having problems with the current administration rather than the former theory that huge numbers of people in the U.S. suddenly found the spare time to remove the tedious sticker that is always difficult to remove. If you ever removed a bumper sticker, you know they are hard to get off.
Could it be that more people are frustrated with Obama and are, dare I say, embarrassed to have supported him now they see what he has been doing? It could very well be. It is quite curious indeed. Whilst this is just an opinion, I leave you to make your own judgments about this.
The Mang
Conservative Capo of Youngstown
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