I just did a Google news search for "campaign office vandal": I got eight examples:
Two reports of damages done to Bush-Cheney offices, one by gunfire (!), the other by spray-paint, eggs and rocks through windows.
One report of a Kerry campaign office being egged.
One report of yard sign theft and bumper sticker vandalism, actually mentions both candidates.
One opinion piece (ChronWatch, but then they admit to being conservative, so I suppose they're not reliable) speculating that the lack of Bush signs in San Francisco (49% Kerry/46% Bush, according to the most recent polls) might be that Bush supporters don't wish to attract vandals. (The author doesn't mention the possibility that some neighborhoods might not mirror the averages.)
Three reports of non-political vandalism that happen to use the word "campaign" to describe the vandal's actions
Not being able to afford Nexis-Lexis, my search options are limited. Still working on it.
MORE: See also JunkYardBlog and NRO. With so many of the openly conservative blogs working this subject, I figure it's only a matter of time before some leftyblog tries to reclaim the "victim" flag.
MORE: And Michelle Malkin.
My error above was verb tense. Googling for "campaign office vandalism" yields a couple of hundred results, which appear to run about five to one towards Bush offices / signs being targeted.
I can only assume that the absence of leftyblogs outraged on this subject indicates that there may be no counter-examples (that is, no significant or organized campaign of vandalism or violence against Democratic campaign offices or workers). Talking Points and Media Matters are all over Sinclair Broadcasting. The Daily Kos is all over the polls. John Perry Barlow is dancing in the streets, just because it confuses Republicans to do so.
But then, as previously noted, the Democratic response is to simply ignore it when they get caught. Admit nothing, deny everything.
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