October 24, 2026 - 9:00 pm

To some, they are a political pet peeve, a plague of partisan litter upon the landscape every two years.

Homeowners associations hate them. Some towns have even tried to ban them.

But Neil Levesque, the head of the prestigious New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College, has a message for people who hate political yard signs: “Move to Russia.”

Levesque, who has worked on campaigns in the past, has no time for complainers. “They are democracy and freedom of speech all rolled into one. The more, the better.”

They certainly aren’t new. In fact, they’re one of the few things in American politics older than Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, whose “Feel the Bern” signs are considered a campaign classic by political pros. (A torn Bernie Sanders yard sign once went viral with a handwritten message: “I took half of your sign because you had one and I didn’t.…