VG,
If you checked a couple of websites for rimfire ammo every time you logged onto the Campfire, you'd find a more than during all your driving around. Though I have seen quite a bit on store shelves during the past month or two in my part of Montana during the past couple of months.
I suspect that even if there bug Republican gains in the election (and I bet there will be), shooters will still be buying "affordable" rimfire ammo anytime they can find it. It's gotten to be almost a knee-jerk reaction by now.