Tim Craig of The Washington Post has an article today that talks about the lack of Barack Obama yard signs available in Virginia, a state where millions is being spent in GOTV efforts. Want an Obama/Biden yard sign? You can buy one and wait for it to be shipped (with less than 6 weeks to go) or you can work for it:
Obama’s Virginia campaign did receive several thousand Obama-Biden signs two weeks ago. But it decided to distribute them only to volunteers who went door-to-door last weekend.
“After you knock on just 40 doors, make sure you stop by the office in your area to pick up your free Obama-Biden yard sign,” Steve Hildebrand, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, wrote in an e-mail to Virginia supporters.
The e-mail offended some.
“Earn your signs? Give me a break,” Chris Duckworth, an Obama volunteer from Chantilly, said in interview. “You should be honored that I would put the sign in my yard. Is he such a celebrity that I have to earn the right to put a 29-cent sign in my yard? . . . We should be saturating the neighborhoods with this stuff.”
