Why no yard signs or promotion? Kerry's losing ground in California

[genius]

I understand his last appearance in CA will be a $5,000/person fund-raiser and still there's no money for outreach. Most people in California will probably never see him in person.

My past experience with campaigns is that people will proudly display yard signs if we offer them. But most won't go to the trouble of buying them. Years ago, I worked on a campaign where we were constantly calling people and offering to drop off signs and we had drivers to drop off lots of signs each day. In the Kucinich campaign, we gave away more promotional stuff per city (on more limited funds) than the Kerry campaign is doing nationally (with large amounts of money). The Democratic Party is not acting like he's a serious candidate.