Artful Dodger: [ Unhinged, violent, immature, and disgusting. All rolled up into Obama supporters. ]

This has been true in my state for a long time. It's just as liberal as the state you live in, so you know what I'm talking about. In the city where I live, anyone with a bumper sticker or yard sign showing support for a Republican candidate can expect to have his privacy or property rights violated. I'm not kidding or complaining, it's just a fact of life. And the fact is you don't have to live on the wrong side of town to be a target.

I've never put up a yard sign or put a bumper sticker on my car, and for good reason. I knew someone whose car windows were broken out. It was the only car hit by vandalism on a street full of parked cars, and the only car with a bumper sticker in favor of a Republican candidate. I happened the same year Gore was running against Bush. I also don't get into political debates with anyone who knows where I live, I just explain to them why in this country we support the idea of a secret ballot. Most of the time they don't know what I mean, or why there should be any reason for a secret ballot. They would if they were Republicans.