Political Yard Sign Wars Wage as Election Nears

Posted by michael on Thursday October 21, 2004 @12:50AM from the signs-of-the-times dept.

gollum123 writes "Yahoo has a story on how tension among bitterly divided voters is translating into a barrage of attacks on political targets that can't talk back - yard signs. Campaign signs depicting support for either President Bush (news - web sites) or Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) are being burned, chopped down, spray-painted and commonly, stolen away in the dark of night. Though sign shenanigans are common in election years, some Republican leaders are calling this year's activity unprecedented. Democratic leaders say attacks are so rampant that supporters should take their yard signs inside at night to protect them. Has anyone on /. had such an experience."

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Re:Bush signs trashed in WA by Keebler71 · 2004-10-21 14:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Democrats hate the Republicans, the Republicans hate the Democrats, the Sunnis, Shiites, and Al Qaeda members in Iraq hate the American occupiers, America hates France, the whole world hates America... listen
Right... and before Bush was elected, we all loved each other.

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