I am seeing more and more of a "sign wars" phenomenon, in which competing neighbors put up signs in response to other neighbors. You can tell what's going on when you see a bunch of Bush/Cheney signs in a row, then a house will spring up with a lot of Kerry/Edwards signs on it as if to compensate. Or vice versa depending on the neighborhood. But in general there are far fewer Bush/Cheney signs. Where I live, they're outnumbered by the Kerry/Edwards signs by ten to one even though the voter registration is roughly fifty/fifty and the district is represented by a Republican congressman.

You can spot the Bush voters around here by the absence of any signs at all. I think the no-signs people have more power than they realize.....

Anyway, earlier today I drove out to an area which is heavily pro-Bush, and therefore safe to display Bush/Cheney signs, and I saw lots of them. But as I drove back towards "civilization," the Kerry/Edwards signs started to appear. The odd thing was, I kept seeing them posted on vacant lots, and I wondered, "What's the statement here? These trees are for Kerry?" And the thought struck me that as a political prank one might stick a Kerry sign on the worst-maintained house in an otherwise nice neighborhood.....

A true "sign" of despair?

But alas, someone stole my idea!

What a treat! (But is it a trick?)

The house has obviously been abandoned for some time. It's falling down, and I just can't imagine that its absentee owner, if he or she really supported Bush, would put up that sign. The explanation must lie elsewhere.

I had thought the ghosts would be voting for Kerry this year.....