Pollity poll poll

[docstrange]

A lot people are reporting the obviously partisan removal of political signs in MA with the upcoming election. I recall a lot of sign shenanigans around these parts in the 2008 elections. I'm curious about my readers and their general take on such things. So, a POLL

Comments

[ilcylic]

My "other" (not really a none of the above): "Use someone I found defacing a sign on my property as a baton fighting dummy".

[docstrange]

*snort*

Yeah, politics is really getting low around some of these parts. I don't know if it's nation-wide, but the apparent sense of entitlement to just mess up someone else's political expression around MA is stunning. Even around here, in the 2008 election we had "attack signs" - that is, signs of a candidate placed to utterly surround the opponent's.

[caladri]

That all (removing, surrounding, ...) was certainly common practice in Durham, North Carolina, in the mid-'90s, even being done by the candidates themselves. I'm surprised to hear that this represents any sort of change anywhere.

[docstrange]

Perhaps before your time there, but in the 1990 election, almost every voting machine in Durham and Orange counties turned out to be malfunctioning election day morning. That was the Jesse Helms vs. Harvey Gantt election.

What. A. Coincidence.

[perspicuity]

i would consider putting up REALLY charged signs with claymores, if i thought i could get away with it ;)

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