Random observation

I have noticed that it seems like whenever I see Obama stickers on cars, the cars are most of time either beat up crap cans or at nicest a Camry. While McCain or Bush stickers seem to be mainly on Cadillacs or BMWs and such and also pick-ups. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it different in different parts of the country? And also why do people leave campaign stickers on their car for so long? I am not trying to start a debate.

Yes, it's different in different parts of the country. Around here, you see the stickers on just about anything although the big trucks do seem to tend Republican.

I have no idea why people leave the stickers on. But then again, I don't know why they put the stickers on in the first place :)

In reply to Keith:

LOLZ. You have a good point there.

I tend to see the Obama stickers on Mommymobiles to go along with their stickers about home schooling being so much better than public schools.

I would totally rock a "Nixon Now" sticker.

Otherwise not so much. I agree with Keith - why put them on in the first place.

Have you ever seen a bumper sticker, slapped your forehead and said "Now I get it!!"

See, but if you have a Saab, you almost certainly need a Bernie Sanders sticker.

I usually see the Obama stickers on dirtbag hybrids that go 45mph in the passing lane. Also, I usually see them on non-turbo Subarus of all types, along with about 150+ other political stickers all over the bumpers and rear windows, often blocking their rearward vision so they can't see you when you are driving near them.

I usually see the McCain, Palin, or other Republican-of-the-hour stickers on either dangerously slow and erroneous-driving old-people beige-mobiles and full size land barges that like to plow into crowds of people in front of Wal-Mart or the local elementary school. As an added bonus, we have the Massachusetts Redneck-type guys up here with the pickup trucks with dual Semi-truck stacks haggardly hacked into the bed, and they sport the Republican stuff too, along with 50+ other stickers about America, guns, and how the South will rise again. Yes, in MA. Seriously.

Anyway, they all have one thing in common: NONE of them can drive worth a damn!!!

Oh, and edit: I saw a frickin' Reagan sticker on a beige-mobile the other day. Yes, Ronald Reagan. It was a reprodution, because it was a late 90's Camry. Someone went out of their way to acquire a Reagan sticker to put on their car in 2010. Seriously, WTF??? That's it, I'm getting a goddamn Lincoln plaque made of solid bronze affixed to the back of my WRX.

I've always liked this one:

And yes, nothing good comes from putting an election sticker on your car. Much like any divisive issue... do you really think you are convincing anyone of anything?

I am also confused by election related signs (you know, the ones in the yards). I mean really, someone is driving around and see a "Jones for city council" sign, and say to themselves: "Oh! Finally I know who to vote for, thank you sign in the lawn!"

Then again, I guess you could look at sports team stickers the same way... what's your point again?

I can understand the local political signs or bumper stickers a bit more at least in a small town. Usually the people know the person running and you can stop and talk to them.

One more example of variation across the country: Here in the San Francisco Bay Area there are very few McCain and Bush stickers and the Obama stickers are on everything from crap cans to BMWs. I had one on my Golf too but it was a magnetic one and I only had it on for a couple of weeks before the election. It said "VOTE" in big letters and "Obama for America" in little letters. I figured it was reminding people to get out to the polls and exercise their democratic duty more than anything else.

here in D.C. Obama stickers are only on foreign cars - oh wait, doh, 98% of the cars here are foreign, almost all Jettas until recently, now there are a TON of Versas.

A number of people here have some personal conflicts like trying to save the earth but needing a big truck to keep junior safe or tow the poloponies around. I was stuck behind one such confused person the other day who's Suburban was covered with obama, anti-bush, anti-war, anti-nuke ect stickers, but the one that left me shaking my head was the one that said "Good Americans Get Good Gas Mileage". I wasn't sure where they were going with that one. I assume they were acknowledging that good conservative small car driving people like me were better Amercians than pinko hippie commies in Suburbans, but I could be wrong.

As for political stickers I used to "Richard Petty for 43rd President" on my car till it peeled off

In reply to SilverFleet:

Something else I'd like to add to that is when one meets the other, STAY THE HELL AWAY! I've seen guys flipping each other off, shaking fists, cutting each other off, even almost trade paint at the sight of a bumper sticker with an opposing political point-of-view! I know politics is a touchy subject, but if an "Obama for President" or "Liberal-Hunting License" sticker is enough to set you off then you have no business driving.

I guess it's more about making a personal statement, rather than trying to get anyone to exclaim "Oh, NOW I'll vote for them."

I notice that if you see an old Volvo station wagon or a Subie station wagon (excluding WRX's) then it's likely got some type of Democrat sticker on it, usually old ones.

Around the Denver metro area the Obama stickers are on old subarus, every prius but one, every VW that enters the shop except for the T rag, and every single small foreign SUV.

Gop stickers are usually on older trucks and domestics.

The wife was sporting a rather large "NOBAMA" sticker on her Hyundai and some black dude rolled up on her and called her a bitch and swerved into her lane right in front of me. I got up next to him in the truck. Explained that that was my wife and asked if he would like to try that again. Dude gave me finger and ran a red light.

I always thought the libs where the sweet and caring type. Suppose not when the lib is black and the conservative is white.

The bumper stickers that bother me are the ones that call one political party or the other unamerican or stupid or gay etc. Political discourse should at least try to be civil and intellegent and it seems that all politics has degraded into idiotic sound clips and name calling. Those bumper stickers just make you look like an shiny happy person and make your political party of choice look bad.

The funny thing is that we have never had a sticker supporting anyone. Just some slightly witty things that I come up with and cut on my plotter.

But then I do sometimes drive my big penis extension redneck domestic truck and I usually expect the to get the evil eye from the Prius owners with the Oblabla stickers.

I wonder what they think of my "I was against Obama when it wasnt cool" sticker on the Golf.

I used to sport a "Click and Clack in 1996" sticker on the back window of my work van. Every four years I would X out the previous year and write in the current election year.

In all the years I drove that van, maybe one or two people ever remarked on it, and always in the positive. Most folks must not listen to NPR on Saturday mornings..

My favorite election sticker.

Thats good.

I just chuckle when I see the "Piss off a Liberal..." stickers. Sorry, but this leftie works hard, pays taxes, and drives a domestic just like you

neon4891 wrote: I just chuckle when I see the "Piss off a Liberal..." stickers. Sorry, but this leftie works hard, pays taxes, and drives a domestic just like you

I have a Mexican built German car and a Canadian built Italian van (well it's Italian NOW!) am I banned from your gang?

You will be fine if you go out and buy a GM product. Just not a Ford. They didnt take the money are the evil.

I wish I could find a bumper sticker I saw one time: "Western swing isn't dead, its Asleep at The Wheel". I would put that one on an old Chevy/Ford/Dodge Pick up. And thats about the only bumper sticker I'd put on my car.

mtn wrote: I wish I could find a bumper sticker I saw one time: "Western swing isn't dead, its Asleep at The Wheel". I would put that one on an old Chevy/Ford/Dodge Pick up. And thats about the only bumper sticker I'd put on my car.

Mid 70s Ford or Chevy with a camper shell on it. Maybe a window A/C unit shoved in the rear window of the camper shell.