Yard sign report from Butler County, PA

[Joe Cool]

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Butler is the county north of Allegheny where Pittsburgh is located. The county has a +27% GOP voter registration.
I can say with all sincerity in at least the county from the city of Butler in the very center of the county and south to the Allegheny County line that I have never seen so many signs for the Demoratic candidates (Josh Shapiro for governor, John Fetterman for Senate, and Dan Pastore for Congress). In some years, the GOP to Democratic sign ratio might be 5-to-1 and I am not exaggerating. This year, in at least in the central and southern parts of the county, the signs are about even with maybe a slight advantage to GOP candidates. It truly is amazing how many signs for Democratic candidates are now in Butler County.
Today, for the first time since 2004 when I put signs out for John Kerry, I placed three signs in my yard for Shapiro, Fetterman, and Pastore. When I put a sign out for Kerry in 2004 it was in my yard for about two days before someone ripped it out and I found it in the street by my house. I put the sign back in its former place in my yard and it was gone within 24 hours.
As previously mentioned, Butler is a heavily Republican county but that is slowly starting to change due to demographic changes in the southern part of the county. The townships bordering the Allegheny County line have definitely become more affluent in the last few decades and are becoming more diverse though Butler County is still about 94% white.
People, if Butler has this much enthusiasm for Democratic candidates in a heavily Republican county then there is zero reason to be pessimistic about next week´s election. GOTV!