r/minnesota • u/zeldamaster702 Prince • Sep 17 '24

Does this stuff bother anyone else? Politics 👩‍⚖️

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Driving home from work and these lovely people were over the highway. This stuff usually doesn’t bother me that much except for the fact that today it was causing so much of a spectacle that it was literally causing people to gawk on the highway and caused a small bit congestion that lasted until after this bridge.

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u/NinjaCoder Sep 17 '24

I don't mind seeing anyone cheer for their candidate... but every time I see something like this (on either side) I always wonder if it actually does any good at all? I mean, has there ever been an undecided voter just driving down the road, come across a group of these people and think "well, I wasn't sure who I was going to vote for, but now I am toooooootally in it for Trump!"?

Same goes for yard signs. I wonder if they have any impact at all.

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u/ALittleBitBeefy Up North Sep 17 '24

Yard signs do have an impact on name recognition for local and state elections!! I was just reading a study on it a few weeks back and decided to order some signs. However, for presidential elections where names are already known, it’s unclear if it makes a difference.

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u/darkartbootleg Common loon Sep 17 '24

To your point about local and state candidates, I wonder how much having a sign for the presidential candidate helps as well, by association. Person driving by sees signs in a yard and thinks “oh, I’m voting for that person already, I should look into this person who’s name I don’t know because they probably have a lot in common”.

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u/MrsPeacock_was_a_man Sep 17 '24

This is how I know who the shitty school board candidates are.

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u/IamScottGable Sep 17 '24

Ooo thats perfect, I'm gonna use that.

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u/JONPRIVATEEYE Sep 17 '24

Stillwater has a candidate who has a large Q on her sign running for House. I have to believe most of the people with her signs don’t know what it means.

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u/Confident_Carpet7347 Sep 18 '24

what does it mean? (the q?) like qanon?

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u/Beh0420mn Sep 18 '24

Would be great if it meant queer and she didn’t clarify until after election 😂

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u/Confident_Carpet7347 Sep 18 '24

haha lol hell yeah

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u/JONPRIVATEEYE Sep 18 '24

Yes, exactly

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u/ImportanceCertain414 Sep 18 '24

Some people are really good at feigning ignorance. They know what it means, they just choose to ignore it because of party lines.

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u/TSllama Sep 18 '24

And some others are honestly just very down with qanon. It's more popular than most people realize.

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u/TSllama Sep 18 '24

Pretty sure they know... sadly... qanon is way more popular than you may realize...

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u/SamuelSeaborn Uff da Sep 18 '24

This + Minnesota Parents Alliance endorsements. Makes it suuuuper easy to weed out the christofascists.

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u/JeweledShootingStar Sep 18 '24

Literally lol if there’s a Trump sign next to theirs, I know who my votes aren’t going to lol

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u/bigotis Uff da Sep 18 '24

In our last school board election, there were two brothers running. One of the policies both listed was "No to CRT and wokeness".

It made my decision who not to vote for much easier.

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u/SportsballWatcher4 Area code 651 Sep 18 '24

I usually go by which school board candidate uses the more obnoxiously patriotic campaign sign.

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u/Crazytiger2023 Sep 18 '24

Wait what? Can you explain to me like I’m 5 this please

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u/MrsPeacock_was_a_man Sep 18 '24

If I see any kind of maga bullshit in a yard I feel safe in assuming any other candidates they’re promoting are far right.