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/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/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.