For this month I thought I would try something a little different and have the posts focus around a theme. I know it's terribly cliché but since it is November, with a major election next week, I figured I would focus on politics. Now before I start to delve into this experiment, here are my self-imposed stipulations. I am going to do my best to avoid stickers that are making a political statement, like my previous posts Tiny political statements and Those cycling environmentalists. It's not that I don't appreciate them, I just feel like there are too many directions these stickers can take and I would be doing them a disservice randomly grouping ones together. So I will be sticking with actual political campaign stickers that are out there on the streets. I will do my best to remain unbiased with these posts, especially since I've never been big on politics, but I am a fairly liberal Democrat so I'm sure things will leak through. With those ground rules in place, let's get on with the show. Since it's all anyone can talk about in this final week of the 2016 election season, I thought it would be appropriate to start with one of the candidates. When I was searching the Southside for stickers, I felt there was no way I could pass on this Trump sticker. There isn't anything special about it's design or it's placement, although I was a little surprised it was still undamaged sitting on East Carson, but I do think it is great example of the traditional campaign sticker. You have the candidates' names, the year of the election, a clean design, and of course one of Trump's campaign slogans. One brief look and you know exactly who the person sporting this sticker is supporting. While not as simplistic as previous campaigns, containing just the candidates' names and year on their stickers, the added slogan gives it that extra punch. Granted I'm not particularly moved with this slogan of "Rebuild America," but nothing really ever reaches the level of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" in my book ;). What I find really interesting about this sticker is that it isn't actually the real campaign logo for Trump. When you go to the website at the bottom on the sticker it directs you to an online store where you can buy Trump gear and is supported by the Spalding Group. The group does say that they have been big supporters and official suppliers for the last 8 Republican Presidential candidates, but it isn't actually immediately tied to the campaign. They do give you a tab for the latest Trump news but that hasn't been updated since September. The site really is just to grab some Trump swag to show your support. The actual logo from his campaign site is definitely a tad more straight forward, although it does sport the slightly more inspirational "Make America Great Again!" slogan. I think that either sticker works in the hopes of getting Trump elected president, both being very clear and concise in the end. We will just have to wait and see what happens on Tuesday.
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Maggie Ondrey
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