National campaigns don’t print yard signs, they leave it up to the locals. Mostly because acquisition and distribution is a pain and they don’t really do anything other than make the yard sign planters feel better about themselves.

Okay, there is some pleasure to be derived from insult signage.

In west central Missouri, barely outside the right of way in front of an empty lot:

I’ve yet to encounter one in front of an occupied house. And I’ve been looking. Not too hard, but I tend to notice these things.

It’s paid for by “StandPatters for Trump”:

There’s a group that actually chose that name?

It appears to be an entrepreneurial entity in Tipton, Missouri. Interestingly, there’s no Allied Printing Trades mark (“union bug”) on their printed materials. Go figure.

Mow it, then plant it.

Though there aren’t too many out there:

A Bernie Sanders yard sign – out months before the primary.

In an indication of impending Spring the campaign signs for local and municipal elections are starting to pop up. It’s fun to watch beginners’ campaigns – they must absolutely have yard signs.

A campaign yard sign in an empty lot in west central Missouri.

Rather, direct mail, direct mail, and direct mail. And direct voter contact – door to door.

From 2008:

No disdain, I love signs

I have six yard signs in my front yard. I’ve helped put up more than thirty 4 x 8s, 4 x 6s, and 4 x 4s this election cycle. I’ve driven the steel posts, I’ve punched the holes and tightened the cable ties. My large sign technique is efficient, impeccable, and an aesthetic marvel.

Given finite monetary and personnel resources available to campaigns signs are one of the least efficient modes of political persuasion. Political persuasion is what campaigns are all about.

Sign distribution and maintenance takes an astronomical amount of energy and time from campaigns. Time is something you can’t get more of in a campaign.

Signs make us feel good, that’s for sure. But they’re not the most important thing in a campaign. They are in fact the least important – way behind newspaper ads.  

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Michael Bersin  Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 14:15:07 PM CDT

Previously:

Signs, signs, everywhere signs (September 22, 2008)

Signs, signs, everywhere signs, part 2 (September 28, 2008)

Signs, signs, everywhere signs, part 3 (September 28, 2008)

And how. In small town west central Missouri:

The right wingnut cult of the lost cause. The signs are still up in empty lots and in the right of way all over town.

Previously:

Lonely (October 29, 2012)

Another yard sign for Todd Akin (r) in the public right of way.

Sewing up the empty lot vote.

Recently we’ve noted a number of Todd Akin (r) yard signs popping up in our locale here in west central Missouri – most alone and in or quite close to the public right of way.

No home for the right wingnut crazy.