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mreilly

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11. Even in the Boston area where I live...

Reply to scheming daemons (Original post)

Thu Oct 19, 2017, 04:11 PM

Oct 2017

.... you could see PLENTY of cars with those "W" stickers back around 2004-2005.

Then 2007 or so rolled around and everyone started to get awfully sick of George W. Bush.

By early 2009, when Obama was sworn in, I saw about 10% of the "W" stickers I had beheld just 4-5 years earlier.

I know some of this can be chalked up to vehicular attrition; cars being retired or sold, but I'm quite sure a significant percentage of people peeled off those stickers, either out of genuine shame or fear of being given dirty looks.

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