
As some of your may know, there’s another election happening in North America other than Obama vs. McCain.
In Canada, Stephen Harper is looking to turn a minority government into a majority so he can do all kinds of wonderful things to Canada (e.g. new, restricted copyright laws) with far less hassle. In any event, one of the things I noticed riding home yesterday was the appearance of lawn signs for local candidates.
There’s lots of different colors, although few for the Green Party, which, I guess, makes sense given the Green Party probably wants to be environmentally-friendly and focus its limited budget on different campaign priorities.
One thing that struck me is whether lawn signs – and, for that matter, campaign pamphlets – are an anachronism. In an age where the distribution of information is increasingly easy because of the Web, do we really need to be cutting down trees to create election collateral.
If you think about it, how much of an impact do lawn signs have anyway? Is the way you vote impacted at all?
Personally, lawn signs are a waste. They don’t say anything other than my name is Joe Smith and I’m running for the ABC company. There has to be better, more effective and greener ways to communicate and educate. It’s time for the political lawn sign to disappear.
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