Saw a house with a couple Harris Walz signs in the hills that separate the core of Portland proper from the Washington County suburbs today.
The weekend Biden dropped out, I saw an “Oregonians for Biden Harris” sign alongside a “Climate Action Now!” sign outside another house in a less residential area of the west hills, further north and closer to the US-30 bridge across the Willamette River. Other than that, I haven’t seen any Dem signs out, although I’ve probably seen at least one Trump bumper sticker at some point this year.
(Last month I also saw a Reichert [R WA-GOV nominee] sign along I-5 in the middle of Tacoma, on top of your usual GOP/MAGA/isolationist/Religious Right billboards in the boonies between Clark and Pierce counties.)
Saw my first non-boonie Trump 2024 sign today in urbanized WA-3 within Vancouver city limits. Plenty of Joe Kent [R] signs along the highways too, juxtaposed right next to several signs for Wil Fuentes for Clark County council. Don't think I spotted a single MGP [D] sign.
Today, I saw my first Trump campaign residential paraphernalia of the election cycle in urbanized Washington County (OR-1), well within the Portland Urban Growth Boundary. The house is within a 1 mile radius of a public high school whose attendance zone directly borders that of the public high school I went to.
She seems like exactly the kind of person who'd vote for Jill Stein over disagreement with the Biden-Harris's stance on Israel/Palestine- especially since she lives in a Safe D state. But this morning, she posted a Facebook status about deciding not to vote this year- the first presidential election she was eligible to vote for that she decided to sit out. Thought it was noteworthy that she chose to abstain altogether instead of voting third party or downballot.
Low D turnout (at least outside of the battleground states) was the defining theme of the election. I figured the turnout differential would generally be bad for Harris, but I didn't think it'd be bad enough for Trump to 1) sweep all the battleground states, 2) comfortably win both MI and NV, 3) win TX by well over 10%, and 4) almost hit 50% of the NPV.
