GStan
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Just a fun little unscientific observation I’ve made over the past eight years.
Since the spring of 2000, I have been commuting 120 miles daily round trip for work. I see lots of cars, lots of traffic, and lots of aggressive driving every day. While I’m still in my 30s, I drive like an old lady (so says my children) and thus, my definition of aggressive driving may fall on the conservative side. I would say that in my book, an aggressive driver would be anyone who does one or more of the following:
a) drives more than 15 miles per hour over the speed limit,
b) changes lanes frequently in heavy traffic without signaling
c) follows the person in front of them at full highway speed less than two car lengths back
I don’t know why I started noticing this, but the more it happened, the more I began to pay attention to it. It started during Bush/Gore, continued through Bush/Kerry, and remains, at least for my own observations, intact today.
That is, if an aggressive driver has a presidential bumper sticker on it, it is ALWAYS in support of the Democratic ticket. Every aggressive driver I’ve ever found a presidential bumper sticker on since the 2000 campaign is for the Democrat. I’ve never once seen an aggressive driver with Republican bumper sticker on their car. This is not to say that Republicans are not aggressive drivers too, but the ones who are must not have political bumper stickers on their cars.
Aggressive Driver + Bumper Sticker = Democratic Ticket Supporter
Perhaps it is simply a function of doing most of my driving in Western Pennsylvania, an area with a high Democrat population. Perhaps aggressive drivers are usually younger, and more likely Democrats. I don’t know; I was just wondering if anyone else has observed a similar phenomenon?
Since the spring of 2000, I have been commuting 120 miles daily round trip for work. I see lots of cars, lots of traffic, and lots of aggressive driving every day. While I’m still in my 30s, I drive like an old lady (so says my children) and thus, my definition of aggressive driving may fall on the conservative side. I would say that in my book, an aggressive driver would be anyone who does one or more of the following:
a) drives more than 15 miles per hour over the speed limit,
b) changes lanes frequently in heavy traffic without signaling
c) follows the person in front of them at full highway speed less than two car lengths back
I don’t know why I started noticing this, but the more it happened, the more I began to pay attention to it. It started during Bush/Gore, continued through Bush/Kerry, and remains, at least for my own observations, intact today.
That is, if an aggressive driver has a presidential bumper sticker on it, it is ALWAYS in support of the Democratic ticket. Every aggressive driver I’ve ever found a presidential bumper sticker on since the 2000 campaign is for the Democrat. I’ve never once seen an aggressive driver with Republican bumper sticker on their car. This is not to say that Republicans are not aggressive drivers too, but the ones who are must not have political bumper stickers on their cars.
Aggressive Driver + Bumper Sticker = Democratic Ticket Supporter
Perhaps it is simply a function of doing most of my driving in Western Pennsylvania, an area with a high Democrat population. Perhaps aggressive drivers are usually younger, and more likely Democrats. I don’t know; I was just wondering if anyone else has observed a similar phenomenon?
