Word: bumpers
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Chad Kister comes back from a morning of canvassing. He wears a plastic Uncle Sam hat with a Harkin bumper sticker, a secondhand herring-bone overcoat, high-top sneakers. The question he receives most often when knocking on doors is "Why did you come all the way out here?" Kister took a week off from classes at Ohio State and had to reschedule a midterm to work for the Harkin campaign. In Cleveland, he hitched a ride on a bus of Harkin supporters from Iowa...
Petch also said the signs have brought much attention, mostly from the press. "Several people have asked up for bumper stickers," Petch said. "Someone said we'd been seen on Japanese television, though I can't vouch for that...
Sightings of that bumper sticker in California and New Hampshire probably go farther than any deep-think analysis to unravel a Washington mystery. Why is the Bush Administration starting to leak hints of a new scheme to dethrone the Iraqi strongman, despite the derision of virtually everyone who knows anything about the Middle East...
Another reason undoubtedly is campaign politics. As those bumper stickers symbolize, the glow of victory in the gulf war has faded faster than the yellow ribbons that still cling to trees here and there; it no longer ! distracts voters from their worries about the recession. And as long as Saddam maintains his bloody totalitarian rule, efforts by Bush and his campaigners to revive memories of the glorious triumph are likely to ring false to many voters. Pat Buchanan and the Democrats can claim, misleadingly but perhaps effectively, that Desert Storm won at best a hollow victory...
Valcanas offers customers a tableful of Tsongasliterature, including brochures, bumper stickers,and copies of A Call to Economic Arms. Heencourages the many customers talking politics totake copies of the paper, which Tsongas wrotebefore he announced his candidacy...