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I just don't get the rationale behind stealing election signs. Is it, like, an organized thing by local volunteer organizations? Or just some guy walking around thinking he's a Vigilante For Politics?
We didn't at all until the night of the last debate. Since then they've been daily.
I'll probably start taking those in at night to be safe, but if this one gets stolen, the next sign will have a running total they've "inspired" me to give to the campaign.
Do people steal signs for the candidates they hate? Or the candidates they like? What if it's Obama fans stealing the signs because they want them for themselves, and now by saying you'll buy more signs to give Obama money, they ramp up efforts?
Great idea, middleclasstool. I really like it. My neighborhood is so damn left, we still have Obama signs left over from the primaries in May. It would be a shocker to see a McCain-Palin sign anywhere within a 3 mile radius of where I live.
I wish someone would steal these old ones, so they can be replaced with bright shiny new ones that aren't so faded and battered.
Good for you, mct. Arkansas is among the most long-shot of long-shots for the Dems, but I still daydream that it might happen. Oh, man, that'd be sweet.
You have to PAY for signs? Huh. Maybe us Canadians do too? I've never been the type to put a sign up in my yard. Not that I think that there's anything wrong with that.
Depends on who's campaigning and where. Obama's not going to spend that much money here because he knows he's likely going to be crushed. Hell, the office has only been open for a few weeks. It'd be throwing money away. He knows most of us who want yard signs will want them badly enough to pay.
It's a lot of fun being in the blue county of a red state.
i am not so lucky.
i'd be really happy to gage the purple apoplexy amongst people who will actually vote.
This kind of open lack of passive aggression doesn't fly this fly over state well either.
It's the lack of passive aggression they have biggest truck with.
(And I'm not exactly faulting them, per se, but if the Clintons, and the state Congresspeople (especially Lincoln and Pryor) made a bigger effort to plug him, I think Obama's chances in AR would be much, much better.)
Ah, I've all but given up on Pryor. His support for the telecom immunity thing may be the final straw for me. I'm of two minds, because I know the ugly realities of being an electable Democrat in this state, but that one really got to me.
Pryor, I think, has really gotten to a lot of people. I'm expecting Rebekah Kennedy (for the benefit of the non-Arkansans: Kennedy is the Green candidate for US Senator, running against Mark Pryor in a race without a Republican candidate) to pick up some serious protest votes this time around.
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