Astounding. Silly observation perhaps, but astounding nonetheless.

[Pacifist Patriot]

On Wednesday afternoons I have a commute that takes me across town on the three busiest streets in the area. It's at least 45 minutes of driving each way. My county went for GWB (or was recorded as going for GWB) by 60% in November 2004. My precinct approached 70% I can always count on passing numerous cars with W stickers on the back. I know this because I frequently have the urge to peek at the driver to see what kind of idiot is driving those cars.

Halfway to my destination this afternoon I realized I hadn't seen a single W sticker. Not a one. So I started actively looking. Usually I see a good dozen without even paying attention. I watched like a hawk on the way back home, even scouring parking lots. Nothing! I figured I'd at least see the one that is usually parked in my neighborhood around the corner from my house. The car was there alright. The W sticker was not.

I don't suppose this means much in the scheme of things but I'm nothing short of astounded. This happened fast...very fast.

[annabanana]

1. I think they've done our PR job for us,,,

The only thing that will keep a Republican majority in either chamber now is those damn lying machines!

[electropop]

4. Either the stickers are biodegradeable...

Or W and the Republicans have finally crossed over the line of what's acceptable to your average right wing citizen.

[stop the bleeding]

7. Biodegradable? - Republicans? - Never - must destroy earth kong

mad, must destroy earth.

[thereismore]

18. BR - biodegradable republicans, haha! More like the * stickers are

a phase in the parasitic life cycle.

[Saphire]

2. don't know why, but I see fewer and fewer, too. Maybe all those

folks that drive SUV's are trading them in (with sticker attached) for smaller, more fuel effecient cars..LOL

[mestup]

3. I wish someone would make this into a bumper sticker:

[electropop]

5. Put it on cafepress!

Make a few $$.

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Absolutely! What electropop said.

[mestup]

10. Thanks! I'd never heard of them before. n/t

[hootinholler]

25. I'll buy some. n/t

[warrens]

6. There were three cars in my area that had W stickers on them

All three stickers disappeared this summer.

[MindPilot]

8. I've noticed that too

In fact I saw *one* W04 oval in the mall parking lot last night and it kind of stuck out. Like you I tend to notice them, and I'm seeing very few.

This past weekend I was at the Miramar Airshow and last year there were many, many, pro-Bush, Teeshirts and lots of people with Bush bumperstickers on their clothes. This year, I did not see one. Not one single solitary Bush mention in a crowd of half a million people on a marine base.

[northzax]

23. well, last year was an election year

you'd expect to see more of them in an election year than a non-election year. and yes, I still have my Kerry sticker on my car.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. True, but you wouldn't expect them all to disappear almost

over night. I tried again when I went to teach a class tonight and nothing either way. Still Kerry/Edwards stickers though. The Bush/Cheney 2000 and Sore/Loserman stickers lasted several years here.

[freesqueeze]

11. My Wife Noticed the Same Thing

She works in Dallas, the land of total Shrub worship, and she says that the number of W stickers is a tenth of what it was around the election.

[Skittles]

12. YUP

I still see some - they absolutely floor me when I see them now - but nowhere near the amount I used to see

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. Do you have the urge to peek at the driver to see what an idiot

looks like or am I just strange that way?

[Skittles]

21. naw, I always look

inevitably it's this whitebread piece of shit corporate-type on a cell phone, driving like crap

[SlackJawedYokel]

13. Maybe they get better mileage without the extra baggage? nt

[mwb970]

15. Meanwhile, I put a Kerry-Edwards sign in *my* rear window.

I see quite a few of them as I drive around Columbus.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. I forgot to mention...until I just saw a thread in the Lounge

that reminded me. I saw 5 K/E stickers on the same drive. Doesn't sound like terribly many, but when you consider the demographics and the utter lack of W stickers it's interesting.

[Balbus]

17. Maybe because it's been a year since last election...

and another year before the next major elections? What would be the point of having an election sticker on your car when there's no election?

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. The point? Oh let's see...

rubbing it in your face

self-righteousness

showing support in contentious times

I actually did have someone tell me just two weeks ago that he kept the W sticker on his car because he wanted "those damned liberals to know that he voted for the winner." I'm fighting the urge to give him a call and ask if it is still there.

The 2000 stickers took at least two to three years to disappear around here. And it was gradual. Not like this.

[ThatsMyBarack]

20. Today I saw....

....the remains of a K/E sticker on a car bumper. I wonder if the driver scraped it off, or some right-wing asshat?

BTW, my immediate neighborhood is liberal (like me)? Some cars still have K/E, OBAMA, and "Re-Defeat Bush" stickers on them!

[eppur_se_muova]

22. I know what happened to one of them...

Here in Ohio, the Vote Fraud State (as it says on the State Seal), there are still way too many W stickers for my peace of mind. I saw one, not on a bumper, but on the plastic tire cover of an SUV, from which it peeled off rather easily (does this hint at a lack of commitment on the part of W supporters?). It's now decorating a urinal, and has been well "decorated" itself.