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More yard sign fun
I swear this isn't an Onion Article
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ign_vandals_dc
Quote:
Political Yard Sign Wars Rage as Election Nears
2 hours, 46 minutes ago U.S. National - Reuters
By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - Two weeks before a tight presidential election, 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. There were reports even of a hatchet left in one and a swastika burned into a lawn sporting a Bush sign.
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"I was outraged," said Lis Ross of Fairway, Kansas, whose "Kansans for Kerry" sign disappeared last week. "What made it worse was that they replaced it with a Bush-Cheney sign. I ran out there and ripped it into little pieces."
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The Kerry to Bush yard sign ratio in my neighborhood is about 12-1. I've noticed a lot more going up as the election gets closer. There's a Kerry sign in the back of my car that will go up whenever I remember it's there. Probably mid-November.
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