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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...
...tourism, conventions and jobs out of the state. Duke skillfully manipulated the politics of discontent, playing on resentment of quotas, welfare and Big Government. He railed against Edwards' liberalism and his penchant for gambling and womanizing and trading government jobs for campaign contributions. But in the end, the bumper sticker won the day: VOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT'S IMPORTANT. Concluding that electing a bigot would be too costly to a state in dire economic straits, voters gave Edwards 60% of the vote. The turnout was an astonishing...
Part of the reason for all this, no doubt, is circumstance. For one thing, California wears its contradictions, its clashing hearts, on its sleeve: even its deepest passions are advertised on bumper sticker, T shirt and vanity plate. California is America without apologies or inhibitions, pleased to have found itself here and unembarrassed about its pleasure. So too, society in California is less a society than a congregation of subcultures, many of them with a membership of one: every man's home is his castle in the air here...
...people who worked on Alice's campaign are dedicated to the end," said campaign manager Norma Weinberg, as sticker-adorned volunteers trooped through headquarters. "It makes you feel that grassroots politics works...
Coupland documents the plight of Generation X through both narrative and frequent marginal comments. He dots the side-lines of his story with meaningless slogans, cryptic cartoons and biting definition of twentysomething life. A bumper sticker asks us to "Reinvent the Middle Class." A cartoon character informs his father, "You can either have a house or a life...I'm having a life." And everywhere there are definitions, capturing the essence of twentysomething life...