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Joe Cool

(750 posts)
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 09:25 AM Nov 2022

Yet another yard sign report from Butler County, PA

First off, yard signs don't vote so those sightings should always be taken with a grain of salt.
Butler County in western Pennsylvania has a +27% GOP voter registration advantage.
In past election years, seeing a sign for a Democratic candidate in Butler County was a rarity. Not this year!
I continue to see yard signs for Democratic candidates (Josh Shapiro for governor, John Fetterman for Senate, and Dan Pastore for Congress) appear where I have never seen signs for Democratic candidates in the past. The locations for GOP yard signs are where they normally appear in every election year. I keep telling everyone that there is enthusiasm for the Democratic candidates (at least in Pennsylvania). There is zero enthusiasm for the GOP candidates except among hardcore Republicans. GOTV!

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Yet another yard sign report from Butler County, PA (Original Post) Joe Cool Nov 2022 OP
In Va. Beach county GreenWave Nov 2022 #1
Can you give some more detail to your comment? Joe Cool Nov 2022 #2
Sure! GreenWave Nov 2022 #10
My home town:) rainy Nov 2022 #4
I've seen very few republican signs this year in north west Ohio. blueinredohio Nov 2022 #3
This seems to be the report from many people across the country. Joe Cool Nov 2022 #5
I certainly hope so. blueinredohio Nov 2022 #6
I lived at the junction of US 19 and SR 488 lees1975 Nov 2022 #7
Yep! They're all over the place liberaltrucker Nov 2022 #8
Well, here in the "People's Republic of Minneapolis" geardaddy Nov 2022 #9

GreenWave

(6,766 posts)
1. In Va. Beach county
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 09:38 AM
Nov 2022

Only recently did the RWNJ get their free Jen Keegans yard signs. Interesting that all the Elaine Luria signs appeared battered but unbroken. Foreshadowing?

GreenWave

(6,766 posts)
10. Sure!
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 02:08 PM
Nov 2022

I have cheapskate neighbors who would never pay. Suddenly they and other communities have the GOP contenders signs sprouting up within a day or two of each other. I don't think they all just got it in their heads to have yard signs at the same time. I surmise they were given to them, maybe at a rally.

Luria signs are fewer but the ones on the roads have all been bashed, dented but are still standing. The keegan signs along the same roads have not been kicked at.

The sad part is that these roads feed into the Master Jet Naval station, although it could be kids on bikes too.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
3. I've seen very few republican signs this year in north west Ohio.
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 10:11 AM
Nov 2022

They usually are everywhere. Maybe people don't want anyone to know they voted for a traitor who stormed the Capitol.

Joe Cool

(750 posts)
5. This seems to be the report from many people across the country.
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 10:42 AM
Nov 2022

Again, yard signs don't vote but if there is a deficiency in the amount of Republican signs across the country as compared to most election years that definitely means something.
No one can say for sure what the election will bring next week but if the Democrats pull off a big win the lack of GOP yard signs was a harbinger of things to come.

lees1975

(3,879 posts)
7. I lived at the junction of US 19 and SR 488
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 11:16 AM
Nov 2022

and in 2016, I counted seven Democratic yard signs in the 16 miles between there and Cranberry Township.

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)
9. Well, here in the "People's Republic of Minneapolis"
Wed Nov 2, 2022, 12:01 PM
Nov 2022

Usually there are few Gooper signs to be seen, but I've seen a few around my neighborhood, which scares the living shit out of me.

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