So I drove through the reddest part of the state this weekend.

[progressoid]

I spent the weekend at East Okoboji and on the way home drove through a few small towns in NW Iowa. I saw a fair amount of McCain signs. And a lot of Steve King signs - huge ones - they really like that doofus. I didn't see a single Obama sign, so I made sure to stop at a couple gas stations so people could see what an Obama bumper sticker looks like. ;)

However, when I got home there were two more Obama yard signs in my neighborhood. :thumbsup: And the most telling thing is the lack of McCain signs here. Even my life-long Repub neighbors have nothing. I've lived in this house for 9 years and have never seen that before.

I wasn't surprised at what I saw in those redder Sioux, O'brien, Plymouth, etc. counties. They'd vote for road-kill as long as it had an R after it. But I am surprised that some of the locals here seem to be sitting this one out. They may still hold their nose and vote for McCain, but they aren't willing to advertise that by putting the guy's sign in their yard.

There is also almost no LTTEs in the local paper this time around. We used to have at least a few a week by the rabid right wing (usually plagiarized from Anne Coulter or Rush). This year...crickets. :)

[Sal Minella]

1. Did you notice Steve King actually voted AGAINST the $700B bailout --

if all his constituents wrote him letters as blistering as mine was, maybe he got the message from the voters.

Still, considering his record, I was really surprised he voted against that POS bill.

[progressoid]

2. Yep - politics can make strange bedfellows.

But I bet if it was Halliburton in financial straights he'd bail them out.

[rurallib]

3. Obama yard signs are a rare commodity everywhere

Our local organizer has a wallpaper that says
"yard signs don't vote, go knock some doors."

[Debi]

5. Cute and true!

:thumbsup:

[Debi]

4. I just drove through Grundy/Marshall/Jasper Counties

and saw several Obama signs AND some Obama/Biden signs. (Marshall had quite a concentration of McCain signs in town). The LTTEs I'm seeing are about 2-1 Obama over McCain and our local HQ is always hopping. The Obama/Biden campaign was genius in setting up headquarters not only in Waterloo but also on the UNI campus AND in Cedar Falls (just a couple miles from my house!). If all three HQ are as busy as the CF HQ is Black Hawk County (Obama/Biden and ALL Dems) will do very well. (fingers crossed here).

[Peacetrain]

6. Over in that area you drove through

and there are few Obama signs.. But they are not handing them out either.. You will see one every blue moon..

Signs don't vote, but I do believe they influence low information people, who think that this is the way everyone around me thinks this way :shrug:

But I really do hear a lot of positive talk about Obama when I am out and about. And lots of energy to try and get Hubler in and King out.

That dufus King, said earlier this year, if you voted for Obama you were voting for a terrorist or words to that effect.

Got a lot of people really po'd at him. He has been this never ending embarrassment for us.