Libby Copeland: It's a tiny thing, but you notice it anyway, walking around the city. On a brisk, sunny day in Georgetown, there it is again: a coat bearing a worn, wrinkled Obama sticker.
Look -- another one! You can see them all around town.
In this, the campaign that goes on and on, why would anyone be inclined to hold on to something so transient, so fragile, as an aging campaign sticker? (And why, in our travels about town -- a survey of sorts that's hardly exhaustive -- do we not see well-worn stickers for John McCain or Hillary Clinton?)
"I was joking about this exact same thing the other day," says Howard Park, 49, an Obama supporter who lives on Capitol Hill and who's had the same beat-up sticker on his winter coat since he volunteered for Obama in New Hampshire last fall. "It kind of shows we were here in the beginning," not like "the new, mint-condition sticker people."
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