The political yard signs that pepper front lawns across the country are a huge waste of time, Organizers–the people out there killing themselves to win this election–hate yard signs with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.”
Instead of focusing on yard signs, people should make phone calls, knock on doors, register new voters, write a check, or do something more useful, if they really want to influence an election. Sure, signs make people feel good, but while organizers are forced to deal with yard signs, Quinn writes, “There’s a walk list sitting in a campaign office not being walked and knocked, and a newly-registered voter who projects as .45 of a vote for Obama is not being registered.”
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