[Photo: Grant Mussman] Brown visualizes this distinction with his yard sign design—and his neighbors soon asked him to make them blue dot signs for their yards, too. “The signs are truly ...

Omaha’s ‘blue dot’ could be a presidential election tiebreaker. Two Omaha residents recognized the effectiveness of the ingeniously coded symbol. Then they got to work with cans of spray paint.

Mary Harper, Red State Nebraska: I have a blue dot across the street from me, one house down. It's fine. I really do think that we need to be more accepting of the other side. There's one sign ...