misplaced election poster?

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pansyflower

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This evening I noticed an election poster placed on an ESB pole just within the boundary of where I work.
Should I
[a] take it down?
Contact the Govt minister involved and ask him to have it removed?
 
It's not a picture unfortunately, just words. They mustn't have made much of an impresion for I cannot remember what was on it!
 
During the last election campaign the sinn fein candidates poster was put on the pole outside our house. The wind blew it around so it was then facing into our house. Every time we looked out the window, we could see his face grinning back in at us.
 
Does anyone else think posters are a total waste of time and resources? I don't get them at all - what are they supposed to do - boost profile? They should be banned imo.
 
I agree. How oldfashioned is it to be putting up such rubbish? A throw back to the 1940s when there were no other media outlets available to politicians to blow their trumpets. This use of "in-your-face", inane-grinning men (a few women) in suits pole-dancing posters drives me mad. Chainsaw in the boot of the car to cut the poles down wouyld be a useful thing these next few weeks!
 
Plus they always seem to take far too long to remove them after the election is over. :mad:
 
Glenbhoy said:
Does anyone else think posters are a total waste of time and resources? I don't get them at all - what are they supposed to do - boost profile? They should be banned imo.
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especially when the environment is more of a key issue now than ever before. They are such an eyesore and sometimes dangerous, where i live a load of them have been placed on a roundabout so it curtails your line of sight. a throwback from yesteryear that should have stayed there.
 
Election posters are indeed a large waste of time and resources. Why do they put them up you might ask? Well...it's all about repitition and your subconscious mind. It creates a message in your mind you're not even fully aware of.

Modern politics is about soundbites and smiley, non-confrontational, freshly made up political faces. It's a marketing exercise. Not that it was ever much more than that...but ask yourself why politicians feel they need to recruit your vote in this way?

Bertie Ahern..."Now, The Next Steps". What a load of twaddle!!
 
another annoyance is after the election, although the posters are (eventually) removed, very often, they leave the plastic tags on the lamppost - maybe every political party could have their tags individually marked and if they are left up, it would be easy to identify and fine them
 
OK, I went to work, got a scissors and the poster including tag, is now in my office. Not displayed, tucked out of sight.
 
Glenbhoy said:
Does anyone else think posters are a total waste of time and resources? I don't get them at all - what are they supposed to do - boost profile? They should be banned imo.
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Believe it or not, they do work, particularly for new candidates. Parties (like my own) wouldn't spend a huge pile of money and resources on getting them in place if they didn't work. A ban on posters would favour incumbent candidates over new candidates.
 
Posters that did work:
Michael McDowell's one in the last election "Single party Government? No thanks" and Pat Rabbits one for the European Election in his CSI Miami stance down by Poolbeg with his jacket over his shoulder "Man of Vision, man of action".
Posters that didn't work:
FG's "Celtic Snail" and every poster that they did when Michael Noonan was party leader.
 
RainyDay said:
Believe it or not, they do work, particularly for new candidates. Parties (like my own) wouldn't spend a huge pile of money and resources on getting them in place if they didn't work. A ban on posters would favour incumbent candidates over new candidates.
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Yes, they do work, by creating smiley face politics. This is one of the things wrong with our democracy - get your face on as many posters as you possibly can and you stand a decent chance of winning the beauty contest!
 
I see loads of defaced FF posters already. My favourite is Bertie with a speech bubble "I am only a bollix" :D
 
Gabriel said:
Yes, they do work, by creating smiley face politics. This is one of the things wrong with our democracy - get your face on as many posters as you possibly can and you stand a decent chance of winning the beauty contest!
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So FF will be in big trouble if BIFFO Cowen ever takes over from Bertie then? I think this election is less 'presidential' than before, as shown by the difference between the party ratings and the leader ratings in the opinion polls. In the last Irish Times MRBI poll, Rabitte was up but Labour were down, PDs were up but McDowell was way down etc.

I presume you're not blaming the politicians for the system, btw. The politicians just do whatever works, not surprisingly.

bond-007 said:
I see loads of defaced FF posters already. My favourite is Bertie with a speech bubble "I am only a bollix" :D
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Is it just me, or is Bertie cross-eyed on his main poster? I suspect some Photoshopping was involved, but he certainly seems to be able to watch traffic coming from both directions simultaenously!
 
What I like is the two pics on one poster , you know Bloggs 1, Murphy 2. Sounds like a Rocky or SUperman advert !
And where do they get the smiley faces from......MSN emoticons !!!
 
pansyflower said:
OK, I went to work, got a scissors and the poster including tag, is now in my office. Not displayed, tucked out of sight.
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Believe it or not - that is theft!

The posters are the property of the political parties.

Re: posters left up too long, by law they have 7 days after the election to take them down or be fined €127 per poster.
 
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