Campaign photo diary: Muppets for Obama

Obama fans embrace the Big Bird craze — and more revealing moments on the trail

Muppets for Obama
(Image credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Members of a liberal group don Sesame Street costumes to protest outside an Oct. 9 campaign stop for Mitt Romney at the Koch Family Farm in Van Meter, Iowa. (Meanwhile, Romney fans compete with their own signs.) Big Bird and Co. have become major campaign symbols in the last week, after Team Obama pounced on Romney's threat to cut funding for PBS.

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