What you might want to remember Freak is that if the person who had his lawn sign stolen (an unproven charge btw) is most of housing developments have an HOA.
HOA's can forbid the placing of political signs in front yards of their developments. The reason for doing so is simple, a house with a yard sign (Traitor or Biden) could be taken to mean that all homeowners in that develpment support a certain candidate. Therefore such signs are banned. Window signs are a diffierent matter, a sign displayed from the inside of a home reflects the poltical belief of the ower.
I've had window signs up in my front room since I bought my home (V.A. Loan). Some people did bitch about (all Republican) and the HOA said as long as the sign in question was NOT on the lawn it was fine.
Also, that story was, as I remember easily disproven. His sign was not stolen. It was removed after other homeowners complained to the HOA.
Research Freak, try it sometime.