i was seeing bad signs way before the campaigning started. There was just something about the GOP line-up that made me blanch a little.

/Just a little.

the night before the iowa caucus mittens' signs appeared all along my drive home. they even stuck one in the cemetery, man. i mean, c'mon, the guy's not a democrat. dead folks sure ain't going to vote for him (nor will the living come november)

Maybe not in presidential primary elections.

A very undesirable nutjob candidate in my town managed to get a lot of jobs purely on campaign signs. He had no website, did no local press interviews, did no door-to-door, appeared at no public forums, yet wrangled a good 20% of the vote.

Being a resident of Iowa, I was actually suprised by the lack of signs before the caucus this year. I found it quite refreshing.

/The commercials on tv, on the other hand...

I've known some political people who use signs as a proxy to measure support. The single family home (mentioned in the article) was the way they really focused on. Highway median signs are basically about who has more money,

Overall, it sounds like they have very few studies on the matter.

Well, to be fair. No one wants Santorum spread on their lawn. That can't be good for the grass.

Sure they do, in Baltimore.

It's easy to make an effective campaign sign that reminds the check-receiving populace what they need to do to keep 'em coming.

They read, simply:

Vote for the Democrats.

/I shiat you not.

stoli n coke: Well, to be fair. No one wants Santorum spread on their lawn. That can't be good for the grass.

Depends on if the lube is water-based or not.

Time to upgrade to massive inflatable cartoons and those wavy, streamer-y, windblown thingies.

ad_rizzle: stoli n coke: Well, to be fair. No one wants Santorum spread on their lawn. That can't be good for the grass.

Depends on if the lube is water-based or not.

Astroturfing?

reubendaley: Sure they do, in Baltimore.

It's easy to make an effective campaign sign that reminds the check-receiving populace what they need to do to keep 'em coming.

They read, simply:

Vote for the Democrats.

/I shiat you not.

4/10. Im giving you two points because when I read your name I thought of Reuben Studdard. That American Idol guy...wonder what hes up to...

Please make them illegal on public property. My neighborhood still has signs from November in random places. The politicians should be fined for littering.

They're pretty cool when you know someone at the office that has the same name(s). You steal a couple of your way to work, cut out any irrelevant text and stick it on their office door.

/yes, I worked at a chill place.

Apparently Ruben Studdard has lost about 80 pounds and is in the process of divorcing his wife that he met at wal mart 4 years ago. Sorry, you just learned those things. Suck it.


/Source Link (new window goes clickity pop)

Can we get these people to do study about if internet ads work too?

moothemagiccow: Maybe not in presidential primary elections.

A very undesirable nutjob candidate in my town managed to get a lot of jobs purely on campaign signs. He had no website, did no local press interviews, did no door-to-door, appeared at no public forums, yet wrangled a good 20% of the vote.

In the last mayoral race for my town, we had one candidate promote herself heavily for it, e.g. bumper stickers, yard signs, poorly proofread and Xeroxed pamphlets, etc. The other two barely did anything at all except fill out a questionnaire for the newspaper.

She came in a distant third.

/She beat the guy who had a laminated sign done in crayon or colored pencil propped on a lawn chair outside his house, though
//LOLKansas

brantgoose: Campaign signs don't work? How will idiots decide who to vote for?

Well, a few years ago, they had that chalkboard show with the crying boy. Nowadays, it's anyone's guess.

This just in: Campaign signs no longer work never worked

FTFY

Off topic, but I just saw an ad for this "Coca Cola" product.
Apparently it's some sort of drink.
The ad made it look really fun, so I'd like to try it.

shinji3i: Apparently Ruben Studdard has lost about 80 pounds and is in the process of divorcing his wife that he met at wal mart 4 years ago. Sorry, you just learned those things. Suck it.


/Source Link (new window goes clickity pop)

Thanks for that, when you mentioned him I became curious as well. I've never even watched American Idol.

Parents, tell your children, the trickle down has begun.

Few understood in those early days of Voodoo economics how it would come to pass but St. Reagan was both a profit and a worker of profound deeds. Through is most holy crusade, a new economy was launched. The conservative revolution took hold and shaped the SCOTUS who ultimately opened the gates and so it came to pass. The billions that have been earned by the precious few now has an outlet and so, through the funding of political campaigns, the rich are now releasing their wealth.

In the new economy we will not make steel or shoes or cars but political ads. We shall mock our fellows and laud our puppets. And those skilled in photoshop and video editing, the language of propaganda and manipulation shall reap the rewards. Let it be sung throughout the land. And St Reagan looked down upon what he had wrought, the politics of image and actors, and he thought it good.

who the fark says "jobs" when they mean "votes?" Me, that's who

Thanks to that photo, I'm voting for BOTH Romney and Santorum

SuburbanCowboy: Please make them illegal on public property. My neighborhood still has signs from November in random places. The politicians should be fined for littering.

Not fined, taxed. Each sign on a highway is $5. Since corporations and rich people make the most donations, it'll be the biggest transfer of wealth in the world's history.Musa I went on his pilgrimage to Mecca.

I used to live on a main city street that was actually part of a state highway. For some reason, all the sign-planters decided that my front yard was public property (probably because of a nearby bus stop) and would build a forest out there every election cycle. I would wait a few days for the maximum build-up, then wander out at about 3:00am, spray them all with lighter fluid and toss a match. In the morning, it looked like the firebombing of Dresden and I usually left the residue in place until the election was over.

One year, the cops stopped by and wondered if I was responsible for the burnt stuff. I went on a rant about goddamn hooligan kids running wild and why the hell weren't they out there protecting people from these criminals. The cops never came back. The burning continued year after year.

The sidebar says the SCOTUS is reviewing how much naked butt we can see on network TV. I'm hoping they decide "All of it!"

I LOVE to cruise the streets the day after an election and grab a few armfuls of campaign signs.

I stick paper targets on them and take them out to the gravel pit. They make wonderful rifle targets.

TripcodeMel: I LOVE to cruise the streets the day after an election and grab a few armfuls of campaign signs.

I stick paper targets on them and take them out to the gravel pit. They make wonderful rifle targets.

Isn't that #78 on "101 Ways to Get Thrown in Guantanamo Bay"?

I live in Iowa. I put a sign in my front yard this year.

The Iowa caucus is over.

But that sign is WAAAAYYYY out there in the front yard.

/I'll take it down when I mow in July

that bosnian sniper: TripcodeMel: I LOVE to cruise the streets the day after an election and grab a few armfuls of campaign signs.

I stick paper targets on them and take them out to the gravel pit. They make wonderful rifle targets.

Isn't that #78 on "101 Ways to Get Thrown in Guantanamo Bay"?

Right after #77: 'Calling yourself a bosnian sniper'

lewismarktwo: that bosnian sniper: TripcodeMel: I LOVE to cruise the streets the day after an election and grab a few armfuls of campaign signs.

I stick paper targets on them and take them out to the gravel pit. They make wonderful rifle targets.

Isn't that #78 on "101 Ways to Get Thrown in Guantanamo Bay"?

Right after #77: 'Calling yourself a bosnian sniper'

That's a reference to Hillary's "dodging sniper fire in Bosnia" silliness in the 2008 primaries.

soundguy: One year, the cops stopped by and wondered if I was responsible for the burnt stuff. I went on a rant about goddamn hooligan kids running wild and why the hell weren't they out there protecting people from these criminals. The cops never came back. The burning continued year after year.

i loled

Political signs seem to have a special, near supernatural place in our society. You have never known someone who placed or held those signs. You know someone has littered the ground with a plethora of plastic red or blue boards. You see from the corner of your eye a gaggle waving them about around intersections.

Try to think long and hard about a friend or relative who would be convinced by them, who would try to convince others with them. Always the re:re:re:re forwarding distant Aunt Susan or Uncle Bob who you have never seen in person, but why would you question the existence of folks who send you a Christmas gift every year? Of course, the gift is some infomercial compilation or a portable gaming system with calculator graphics and instructions in both Mandarin and Haitian-Creole.

Political signs are an urban legend alongside alien abductions and ghosts. We all have seen political signs, as we have all heard those distant voices and seen strange objects in the sky. Political signs and the campaign season in general will remain a strange phenomenon, I fear, until our understanding of neurology progresses to where we can say what those floating orbs in photographs are and who the f*ck thinks a sea of "Soandso '##" will garner a vote.

Wait. People bought Obama signs? Not only did they advertise for the campaign, they paid for the privilege, in both money and contact info?

Suckers.

Two_Noodles: The sidebar says the SCOTUS is reviewing how much naked butt we can see on network TV. I'm hoping they decide "All of it!"

Even Ruben Studdard's?
/imagine that in HD

brantgoose: Campaign signs don't work? How will idiots decide who to vote for?

Fox News?

brantgoose: Campaign signs don't work? How will idiots decide who to vote for?

With a special thing I call "dartboard democracy".

I was driving through a small town a while back and noticed these local-yokel election signs all over the place:

Now THERE'S a candidate one can get behind.

What's thread about? Didn't have time to read article. No time, later gotta go.

/look for people trying to get killed by my bumper not little signs along road.

Campaign signs serve two very valuable purposes:

1) The huge mass of signs on the lawn of a church or school identifies it as a polling place

2) Republican signs identify where my dumber neighbors live

In addition, four years ago a subgenre of signs with religious messages, made up to look like political campaign signs, began appearing. I call them Jesus For President signs and they, too, identify where my dumber neighbors live.

Bumper stickers irk me too. "I should vote for X candidate because the random stranger who drives that car supports him/her".