READER DANIEL RUWE EMAILS:

I’m a student at Thomas More College, a liberal arts college in Northern Kentucky. Walking through the faculty/staff parking lot today, I did an impromptu count of the bumper stickers supporting both candidates. Result: McCain and Obama, tied at three. Granted, maybe there were lots of Obama stickers but I just missed them, and maybe all the McCain stickers belonged to the staff (as opposed to faculty), but still, how many other colleges can there be where this is true? Just thought I’d mention it.

Actually, in my faculty-staff parking garage the numbers seem about even, too, though what’s more striking is how few cars have any political bumper stickers — far fewer than 2004. That seems to be a general phenomenon, as far as I can tell.