I have a 45 minute commute to and from work. It's a boring drive, trust me. Plus, I drive a Jeep Wrangler which I haven't had a top on in years. So listening to the radio isn't the easiest thing in the world to do.

What I decided to do today on the way home was to count the number of presidential bumper stickers plastered on to the back of cars in an unhighly unscientific method of determining the winner in November. I figure that slapping a bumpersticker onto a vehicle is akin to getting a tatoo - the damn thing probably is never coming off - so the bumperstickerer probably has a strong attachment to the candidate and will be voting for them in the next election.

Now, how I came up with the following numbers follows this formula - I tried to only count each car once. Due to a limited amount of memory and the annoying fact that I still had to concentrate on the road itself, these numbers have a margin of error of  +/- 100%.

Today's totals are as follows

Bush: 8
Kerry: 1

To be fair, Dean had 2 even though you could tell one of the owners attempted to scrape it off without luck. Like I said, those things are permanent. I saw a “The Earth doesn't belong to us, we belong to the Earth” sticker on a Festiva. I'll chalk that one up for Nader.

Well see how this trend plays out. If you'd like to participate in this poll, please let me know how many bumper stickers you see on your way home from work!