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Vandalism against political campaign offices and private citizens' yard signs and bumper stickers is nothing new. What was new in the campaign just completed was a genuine fear by people in some places about what might happen to them if they advertised which candidate they supported. In several states, the uncivilized from both sides graduated from stealing yard signs to: throwing rocks through the windows of houses displaying them; setting signs and lawns on fire; driving up on lawns with a car to mow over signs; using keys to scratch cars bearing unfashionable political bumper stickers (referred to as "keying"); and smashing car windows. In Los Angeles, some fed-up Bush supporters created a T-shirt reading, "A person of tolerance and diversity keyed my car."
Kerry/Edwards supporters took the lead in violent displays. Bush headquarters in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Florida were stormed by union orchestrated rioters protesting what they called President Bush's "over-time pay take away."
More than 1,800 anti-Bush protesters were arrested in New York ...