Signs and portents. Saturday, Martha, our elderly across-the-street neighbor, was puttering about her front yard, and at the end of her session of raking and pruning, she walked up to the two McCain - Palin signs near the sidewalk, pulled them up, and put them in the garage.

I cocked my eyebrows. Was this the iceberg-tip of a silent, hidden trend? I almost shook off my sloth to fire up Movable Type and crank out a blog post:

Republican doom – McCain support in the heartland crumbles!

But I didn't.

This morning, Martha opened up the garage again and put the signs back up. Apparently she didn't want them blown away by the 60mph winds we had yesterday.

Surprise last minute surge – McCain comes storming back!


Posted by David Fleck at 27 October 2008 09:00 PM
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After the first paragraph, I expected you to find that the sweet little old lady had been getting death threats over her signs. That would have been a much more exciting post. And then when she put them back, you could have lauded her courage in deciding not to knuckle under to the Forces of the Lightworker.

And both posts would have conformed to current journalistic standards! (Er, as long as you studiously avoided asking her about it.)

Posted by: Angie Schultz on October 28, 2008 08:57 AM

Today ,I hope today is lucky day.

Posted by: 实木复合地板 on October 29, 2008 07:48 PM

...death threats over her signs.

This is Iowa, remember. Though there apparently has been a bit of underhanded sign warfare going on.

Mr. Lucky Day: I'll deal with you later.

Posted by: David Fleck on October 29, 2008 09:30 PM

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