Traveled down to check on the Route 1 Hoyer/Cardin jumbo signs. Part curiosity. Part wanting to make sure I had something project related to blog about today since nada is happening on campus yet. Soon I keep telling myself. Soon.
We'll see.
The thumbs have held up well. They remain unaltered, but whether this is from the area being untrafficked or from apathy I have no idea. I was pleased to see that one thumb that I had posted without rubber cement had survived an entire weekend of rainy weather. I gave the valiant Post-it a dab of well deserved reinforcement rubber cement.
Something interesting had happened in the area though. Last Thursday, across the street from the signs whose pictures I blogged, there was an identical set of signs that I posted on in an identical manner. Today, right next to these signs, Cardin's opposition, Daniel Bongino, had put up a sign of his own.
It was a big one too.
Once again, we see the political practice of sign negation in action. As you may notice, I posted in favor.
Observe the video I accidentally took instead of photo as I rode off on a bus from the posting site
I later tweeted the above photo at @dbongino, as I often do to candidates' Twitter accounts after posting. Later, this happened.
I don't know about you guys, but I feel like this is really legit. Sure, Bongino might just think I put up the sign, but hey, I'll take what I can get! Hoping for more candidate interaction in the future.
On the national stage, it seemed that the Etch A Sketch image has reappeared on, as expected. However, most, if not all, of this attention has been from more mainstream media sources like cable news, news columns, and political pundits, and less from the average-internet-political-meme-peruser/creator (a very official term, I know). So the question is, does that mean that the Etch A Sketch Romney movement has been successful or unsuccessful? Are political images more powerful when they are recognized by "professionals" or widely circulated? It will be interesting to watch whether or not people in and outside the media come back to this as the debates continue through October.
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