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Soccer Moms (& Dads) for Romney-Ryan in Ohio

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Shortly after arriving in Cincinnati on Monday, I drove into the ‘burbs to watch my second youngest nephew’s soccer scrimmage. In the parking lot, I noticed a great variety of bumper stickers, some about local sports teams, but most about politics.

I saw a good number supporting the Senate campaign of Josh Mandel, but none for his opponent Sherrod Brown, one of the most liberal members of the United States Senate. I saw stickers calling for the repeal of Obamacare, but none expressing support for the legislation overhauling and increasing taxes on our health care system.

And I saw stickers supporting Mitt Romney for president and the Romney-Ryan ticket, but none advocating the reelection of the incumbent or promoting the Obama-Biden ticket.

Now, to be sure, this is just one upper middle class region in Ohio, and don’t know if we can extrapolate much from it, but it does suggest that soccer moms (& dads) in southern Ohio may be lining up behind the Republican ticket.

Did not catch some other anti-Obama stickers, but none this like:

(H/t: Legal Insurrection.)

Comments

  1. Less than 2 months to the election, and here in NJ there’s no yard-signs or bumper stickers from either campaigns. Not sure if it’s apathy, or NJ considered so-safe for Obama that neither campaign expending any effort here.

    Tho’ I expect the airwaves to be thick with ads since we’re in the Philadelphia TV market. Even the congressional seats mostly uncontested this time around…safe seats of either party…the real contest was during the primary.

  7. They are democrat suburbs all the way, thats why i said i wouldn’t expect anything else. But the way I see it, these people hate Republicans so much that no matter how awful a democrat is, they will still vote for him over the republican, and I think this president is proving that theory

  8. The suburban Cincinnati seems to be quite a conservative area (based on election results), so I wouldn’t use it as a reliable indicator (and Cincinnati seems to be one of the more conservative major American cities) (although, I could be wrong; you clearly know the area better than I do, Dan). Some of the counties in suburban Cincinnati seem to be even more conservative than the most Republican state (which, in 2008, was Oklahoma, but is Utah in general).

    Mnscorpio, I’m curious about which specific suburb you are referring to (if you are willing to reveal that information). Is it in Hennepin County? I ask because all of the counties in the western part of the Twin Cities (excluding Hennepin County) voted for McCain in 2008 (not usually by a very big margin, though).

  9. These are neighborhoods I drive thru on my commute, in western Hennepin cty. Big houses, lots of $$. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the lawns with NO signs are conservatives who simply don’t want to deal with torch-wielding mobs attacking them, because being a conservative around here is kinda like being a werewolf in a movie, you are not popular with the neighbors.
    Rattlesnake, why do you know about voting patterns in central MN?

  11. I would like to hear more about Ohio. Here in FL, the normally blue Volusia county has Romney signs on main highways and in yards. I live in a very Republican county that has a high voter turnout. I travel through much of central Florida in my job and “The Villages” has a large senior voting bloc that is Republican as well. The very blue Palm Beach county has Representative Allen West stumping for Romney. The Jewish Republican Organization is focusing on Palm Beach, too. Have been here for 4 elections and called them right each time. I say FL light red.