41.   On Thursday night, just after final evening prayers, Khan and other members unfurled a white plastic banner outside the mosque and strung it between two utility poles.

42.   On Thursday afternoon, crews scraped sand from the roads and straightened utility poles.

43.   Pedestrians, utility poles and parked cars jut out from the left, forcing cars to weave around them.

44.   People clustered atop cars and downed utility poles to see the President.

45.   Political signs were plastered on almost every available street light and utility pole.

46.   Roadside utility poles, destabilized by the melting, tilt at crazy angles.

47.   Soon seven cameras were mounted in plain view on utility poles.

48.   So they turned off electric power from a key utility pole and pulled out their own chain saws.

49.   Stacked one upon another, as high as campaign workers could reach, placards transformed utility poles around Columbia into totem poles of red, white and blue.

50.   Some are designed to look like pine trees, billboards or utility poles, and others are hidden inside church steeples.