Attack of the Yard Signs
 

Speaking of wanting the election to be over...

A few days ago I came home one evening to discover our yard covered with Bush/Cheney signs. I'd obtained a Kerry/Edwards sign that day, so I put it up next to the B/C signs. In the last few weeks, we've often awoken to find the entire street littered with enough B/C leaflets to paper a mansion ( :rolleyes: ), so my boyfriend and I weren't sure as to the source of the B/C signage. We left a note for our downstairs neighbor (we live in a duplex) inquiring as to whether the signs were hers, or the result of random neighborhood canvassers. In the note, we stressed that we didn't care if the sign was hers; we just wanted to make sure that anything put in the yard came from one of us.

Well, when I woke up the next morning, I found the note back on our door with the words "It's MINE" scrawled across the top. Our K/E sign had been moved to a less conspicuous part of the yard. I sighed and replaced the K/E sign where it had been.

And that exchange remained relatively civil. On our block, cars displaying bumper stickers for one candidate or another have been keyed or otherwise vandalized. Many yard signs have been stolen. I know that GeekyPenguin, who lives in another part of town, came out to her car one day to discover that someone had written offensive things all over her K/E car decals. :eek: Not cool.

Has anybody else seen or heard of this happening? Wisconsin is a swing state, so perhaps it's more prevalant here, but I'm curious. What are your thoughts?

I confess that sometimes, when I see opposition signage, I have the childish urge to deface or steal it, but I don't. That's just immature. If my side wins, it's going to be because more people agree with our ideas and like our candidate. Yard signs don't vote. :p

I think you've been a classy chick about this whole thing!
And make no mistake, I'm a big B/C supporter.

In my town, an article in the paper this morning described some shenanigans surrounding a several square block area with predominantly B/C signs where the residents were all sent packages with bootleg copies of Fahrenheit 911 along with a letter urging them to make an informed decision before they voted.

Silly season for sure.

I would hazard a guess that this is going on all over the country: B/C AND K/E signed vandalized or destroyed.

I drove down one street today, about four blocks long. EVERY HOUSE had one sign or the other (it leaned very much to the one side, but that's not important for this statement)!! After hearing of so many people who have had their signs disappear in the night, seeing this street just full of signs cracked me up!