While her fellow Iowans hammered down lawn signs, canvassed neighborhoods or fended off suppertime solicitors, Patti Brown spent the months leading up to the Jan. 3 caucuses studying political BS - ...

Campaign bumper stickers are part of a hallowed (if sometimes raucous) tradition, as Martha Teichner now tells us: It’s been said that Americans consider their cars extensions of their personalities, ...

New research published in Frontiers in Political Science has found that people are more likely to react with hostility to drivers who display bumper stickers from a rival political party, especially ...

What can Internet sales of T-shirts, bumper stickers, and other memorabilia tell us about the state of the presidential race? You've probably heard of retail politics -- the dirty business of hitting ...

Nobody wants to admit that a lowly bumper sticker can influence their behavior. But researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that drivers were far more likely to honk after being cut off by a ...

In 1992, Bill Clinton was dubbed the comeback kid. In 2004, the comeback kid is likely the political bumper sticker, which actually has enticed people, after years of shunning such expression, to wear ...

The American bumper sticker has undergone a major “glow-up” in the last 30 years. A political glow-up, that is. The modern bumper sticker has gone through more fashion trends than the Kardashians.

Before the 1964 presidential election, Harold E. Feinstein and his Aldine Publishing Co. took a bipartisan approach. The company sold bumper stickers to both the Goldwater and Johnson campaigns. The ...

Not long ago, it seemed you couldn’t drive down a street this time of year and not see a bunch of them. Next time you’re on the road, count the number of political bumper stickers you see. It’s not ...

It’s election season, which means an uptick in the number of car bumpers declaring their drivers’ political allegiances. The application of the political sticker is a ritual I know well: When I was ...