Yes - very interesting for NC.

I do a similar generalization with cars and bumper stickers: The more high-end/luxury types and the pickups are more likely republican. I've not conducted any real survey of late...

*adds this on to-do list*

I've noticed that around here at least, McCain lawn signs are somewhat common, but bumper stickers are almost nonexistent. In the few instances where I have seen them, they haven't actually been stuck to the car, they've usually been taped. It's almost the opposite of '04 when people seemed to rock the W bumper stickers with confrontational pride.

In the few instances where I have seen them, they haven't actually been stuck to the car, they've usually been taped.

drezdn - that's a great metaphor for how a lot of Repubs view the McCain campaign - with reluctant, dutiful, temporary support. It does suck when you don't feel too strongly for your guy.

hey stew, just don't drive down stagecoach rd down by fearrington and 751 - there's a horse farm that has like 20 small McCain palin signs and one giant 4'x8' McCain sign.

Heh, I still see W stickers on cars around here... Kept on with some pride I suppose.

I don't know which signs are in the high-end neighborhoods, as they are mostly gated communites. In the "average" local streetyards is a pretty good mix of signs.

there's a horse farm that has like 20 small McCain palin signs

Ah, but that still only counts as one household!

Signs up here are a bit of a complicated story. The Obama campaign is leaning less on signs here and more on personal organizing - that's partly because of philosophy and partly because we can't get enough signs in anyway or keep them in stock. They go right out the door even though we're charging for them. But the supply is still much smaller than the demand and people are not getting signs when they want them.

There are some nifty homemade signs sprouting up. One guy downtown has a round window in his fancy condo above the square. He used white sticky vinyl to make the "O" symbol with the stripy waves in the window...pretty neat!

I've seen very few McCain signs or stickers where I live but that's not really surprising since there are almost no republicans in the city of Pittsburgh proper. There hasn't been a republican elected to city office since the thirties. They haven't even bothered to run a republican candidate against our congressman for years, AFAIK. I'd suspect that if I ventured out to the 'burbs of the 'burgh, I'd see more McCain signs but I try to keep away from mall-world.

There are more McCain signs on my drive to work than Obama ones. (I think the total for both sides is only something like 10 households though.)

I'm hoping that it's due to the fact that apparently Obama signs are really hard to get ahold of (according to some news article I read a week or so ago).

I've seen two McCain signs in NYC. One was a poorly photocopied picture of McCain and Palin taped to a newspaper box in the neighborhood. The other was a big official looking sign in the window of some store on Broadway (Astoria's Broadway) that always supports Republican candidates.

I don't see many yard signs (I lived in a community that disallowed them before, and now I live in an apartment complex). As for car stickers, I probably see an even ratio, but there's a few people driving big pick-up trucks who have these GIGANTIC McCain/Palin stickers covering the whole rear window. One of them bowls at my bowling center, and he added a jab at libruls like me - something along the lines of "Kick the whiners to the curb".

there are almost no republicans in the city of Pittsburgh proper

That explains why we weren't invited to any more pool parties after my father put up the Goldwater sign.

I have seen, maybe, four McCain yard signs in all of Austin and one, I repeat, one McCain/Palin bumper sticker. For comparison, yesterday I counted seven different 'Texans for Obama' yard signs on the short walk from my apartment door to the bus stop, and it seems like 1-in-5 cars sports a shiny blue Obama '08 sticker on the bumper or back window. Granted, this is Austin, but Bush/Cheney bumper stickers weren't all that hard to come by, even as late as 2004. The almost total non-existence of signage in support of McCain/Palin is, frankly, astonishing.

I have seen exactly one McCain/Palin bumper sticker in L.A., and I had to do a double-take to make sure. Even then, I thought it might have been a joke.

Speaking of which, I saw a Cheney/Satan '08 sticker on a pickup over the weekend, and it caught me so offguard that I actually did a spit-take.

We're awash in a sea of McCain signs. So much so that I'm always tempted to knock on the door of houses with Obama signs just to give a thumbs up. And there's one humungo McMansion that has lots of Vote Pro-Life McCain/Palin signs with pictures of fetuses. How festive!

There's a winery in our neighborhood that frequently hosts Democratic events. Their wine is terrible, but the mister and I are always saying that we should stop in and buy some just to support them. Well, the other day I drove by and their driveway was just littered with signs for McCain and all the other Repub. candidates. We were so upset! We're not buying your crappy wine now! By the next day, however, all the signs were gone--spread out along the way out to the main road. We suspect that someone must have gathered up all the signs and stuck them on their property as either a friendly joke or a big F You.

About a week after we put out our Obama sign, four McCain-Palin signs (in different yards) sprung up just down the street from us.

In our part of Atlanta overall it's about 50/50 with the signs, I'd say, but I see more Obama stickers on cars. Out in the burbs, it's probably 2-to-1 more McCain logos than Obama logos.

No signs to report here in England, but I got my absentee ballot in the mail today, and I swear, when I saw Obama's name on the ballot, I teared up with gratitude. Please, dear god, let that man win.

I live in a union/manufacturing town (the one in the news for losing its GM plant early), and the city narrowly votes for Democrats generally. This year the Obama signs are just everywhere, although there are a couple of prominent businesses that have ginormous signs for McCain/Palin and our local GOP Congresscritter.

Out in the country it's the reverse -- hardly a single Obama sign to be seen.

Anyway, if polls are to be believed, Wisconsin is all but safe for Obama now. I don't want to be overconfident though because when I worked GOTV for Kerry, there was definitely a Republican "silent minority" that turned out the same day. Taught me that signs don't mean all that much.

Cheney/Satan '08

I don't get it. Doesn't a major-party ticket have to feature two different people?