Do you know why you're not seeing many Hillary yard signs or bumper stickers?

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56. This is absolutely true!

I recall a NYTimes article a few months back, after the New York primary - where she blew EVERYBODY out, including the three remaining republi-CONS combined - Trump, Cruz, and Kasich. She got more votes than ANYBODY. It was so lopsided that Lawrence O'Donnell that night declared that "New York is NOT in play." And he was talking about the general election in the fall.

This story's reporter admitted to being surprised. This writer had spent weeks walking all over the district, noting, for example, a glaringly obvious indicator that it was a Bernie Sanders stronghold. There were yard signs, window placards, and bumper stickers GALORE - all over everywhere. The reporter noted that there were no such visible outward signs indicating support for Hillary. So, then, how did she win so resoundingly - in that same district? The reporter then realized that it was because Hillary supporters were under the radar. They didn't make noise. They didn't go blatant or obvious. They didn't pack any rallies. They didn't wear t-shirts or drive around with bumper stickers all over their cars. Nothing in any of their windows or front yards. All the Hillary supporters did was show up at the polls and make their preference count - THERE. There was a quiet, unseen, under-the-radar FLOOD of support for Hillary that this particular reporter completely missed. I might add - reporters from coast to coast missed it, too.

Maybe that's just how Hillary supporters are? Don't know. All I know, personally, is - during the primaries, I stayed under the radar myself. As did MANY women I encountered. At the checkout counter at our local grocery store, I closed my transaction with the usual smile, a "thank-you," and "don't forget to vote!" The woman nodded enthusiastically. I leaned in a little and mouthed "Hillary." She looked at me, glanced to one side and then another, as if to make sure she wouldn't be seen, and gave me a huge smile and nodded vigorously back at me. It was like - this was our little secret, or something. I saw that, personally, again and again and again. All over the place. Nobody seemed to want to be out in the open, but every one of 'em were fully behind Hillary.

It wouldn't surprise me if we see more of this in November. Especially considering the out-n-proud, hot-headed, nasty, in-yer-face offensive tactics of the Trumpsters. I need to point out here - Bernie supporters were NEVER openly hostile and confrontational like that. Not EVER. I NEVER saw that even in encounters with Bernie followers when a bunch of us went out canvassing for Hillary. Never met ONE who wasn't totally friendly and nice and not one bit hostile or insulting or menacing or in-yer-face. The Bernie supporters we met all said they would vote for Hillary in November, even though their hearts were elsewhere during the primary. And every single one of them was polite and congenial as can be.

It's the Trump people, totally, who already have their mad-on because they genuinely are pissed off that whites are slowly losing clout and they insist this should always be an Anglo-dominant country when in reality, it's changing! They're the ones who resent the hell outta that Black guy who's had the nerve to presume he could be President, when he's taken the job of a white guy who was "rightfully" more entitled to it. There's a HUGE discomfort in this country now, among those who hate the fact that the people of color AND women, too, who SHOULD "know their place" are no longer conforming "the way they used to" (or the way they used to HAVE TO). You kinda feel like you need to keep it to yourself around them, otherwise you might actually get hurt. Or find your tires slashed. WHICH, btw, I DID FIND, back during bush/cheney, when I had a Howard Dean sticker and a "bush KNEW" and a "War is Not the Answer" in my back window. My daughter borrowed my car and the tires went flat on her and it was clear they'd been slashed. She had to call us to come help and didn't want to wait alone for the Auto Club. She was spooked, too. So I took the stickers out. Don't really care about myself, but there's no way I would put my daughter in danger!

I also had some seriously angry middle-aged dude in a big ol' pickup truck on the freeway try to intimidate me - WHILE WE WERE DRIVING. He sped up in the lane next to me, and stayed alongside, trying to get my attention so I'd see his angry facial expression and his insulting gestures. He wanted me to know how much he hated how I felt from seeing my bumperstickers. He even pointed back toward them, to make it clear. It was rather upsetting. I finally started to slow up a little and sink back behind him, which I suspected he wouldn't want to do, even to stay side-by-side with me so he could continue to insult and threaten me. Finally, he gave up. Had to change lanes because his offramp was approaching. I stayed in my lane. But he was REALLY angry-looking, and bigger and beefier than I am, so I dread imagining what kind of confrontation might have erupted if we weren't on the freeway. It's easier to force somebody to pull over on surface streets than it is on the freeway. That was a most unnerving experience, gotta say.