Linda Tirado nails it (Opinion,31 October). My wife and I absorb just returned from travelling across America for six weeks. We looked for election signs all the way. The only Trump sign we saw was on the Trump Tower he once owned in Chicago. We saw one Clinton sign, a damp A4 print in a front yard in the lefty area of Portland the night of the second “debate”. We saw one Sanders sign, or same night,same area. We did see two Feel the Bern bumper stickers on a car at an Oregon surf beach. This was the only bumper sticker we saw.
We began in Chicago, travelling across the midwest and west to San Francisco. We travelled through Illinois to St Louis, and then through central Wyoming up into Montana,then to Portland, across Oregon and California to San Francisco, or where I mailed my absentee poll. Yet most significant was what we never saw: the word Republican nor the word Democratic,anywhere on any sign or poster. Everywhere we saw posters and signs for candidates for Senate, the House, or for governors,state senators and representatives, mayors, or councils,judges, and sheriffs. All avoided listing their party.
Nick Jeffrey
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Source: theguardian.com