Not far from my neighborhood of Yuppie Acres, Alexandria, is Franconia Road, on the way to Springfield and Burke.

Yesterday, I noticed that the divider on Franconia Road had been absolutely smothered with yard signs for Creigh Deeds, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate – in an over-the-top manner sufficiently amusing for me to go back with a camera.

On one divider, a mere 30 yards or so long, I saw 27 Deeds signs.

And here, ladies and gentlemen, is another sign, no pun intended, of what ails the Deeds campaign. I won’t even get into the carbon footprint of printing up all these ludicrously redundant signs; who figures that the most effective use of these signs is three across, every couple of feet? And who does that for a candidate who’s pledging to make state government “cheaper, leaner and more efficient“? I’ll trust this guy to use government funds efficiently when his campaign shows they can use yard signs efficiently.

I thought yard signs were most effectively used in yards; people see signs on their neighbors’ lawns and think, “Huh, Joe’s a nice guy who loans me his snowblower, maybe if he likes that candidate, he must be a pretty good one.”

As you can see, there are a couple of signs for GOP candidates like McDonnell and Bolling in there. I’m sure this isn’t the first time somebody’s gone nuts with putting signs by the side of the road. But it just seems like behavior of a campaign that is flailing. Sure, they’re ubiquitous, but those signs don’t actually make an argument.

UPDATE: Brian Faughnan notes, “Yard signs crop up on medians when people who own actual yards refuse to take them.”