This campaign sign graveyard is bringing election losers back from the dead

By Jiselle Lee

A presidential election season lawn pocked with Thomas Dewey, Barry Goldwater and Aaron Burr signs might seem like some sort of prank. Barbara VanDenburgh had never seen anything quite like the display in her Central Phoenix neighborhood, so she took some photos and posted the exhibit on X. The “graveyard to failed American presidential campaigns,” as VanDenburgh called it, is actually an art installation that makes the rounds across the country every four years, much to the delight of onlookers who enjoy the trip down memory lane.