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Senate recount means it’s still sign season in Minnesota

By Chris Steller | 12.15.08 | 3:10 pm


Minnesota’s ongoing statewide U.S. Senate recount means that political lawn sign season is into extra innings also — even amid snowdrifts and minus-30-degree windchills. You see signs from the Senate race still out in yards around the Twin…

Sign season: Obama sign with red star now ‘socialist’ red meat

By Chris Steller | 10.30.08 | 12:38 pm

Barry Clegg wanted to irritate Republicans who had scheduled an offshoot event from their national convention a couple blocks from his house on Nicollet Island near downtown Minneapolis. So he ordered a large Obama banner to hang in his yard from an Iowa-based vendor he found online. Now the banner’s decidely unofficial red-star design (which the vendor, not Clegg, came up with) has taken on new meaning in the context of Republicans taunts that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is a “socialist.”