As we get closer to Election Day, both Republicans and Democrats are accusing the other side of going too far. And some of the worst behavior has been not from the candidates or their campaigns, but their supporters.

This week, a group of liberal protesters tried to disrupt Sarah Palin's motorcade in Grand Junction, Colorado, and had to be dragged out of the street by police. It was captured by local TV and rebroadcast on CNN:



And in Fairfield, Ohio, a man hung Barack Obama in effigy as part of a Halloween display. He wouldn't appear on camera, but told a local reporter that the U.S. is a white Christian nation, and only white Christians should be in power:



John McCain said during the final debate that such incidents represent the behavior of only the fringe on both sides, and that fringe will do inappropriate things. And at one of his rallies in Woodbridge, Virginia over the weekend, McCain's supporters took on that fringe directly.

A man who would not give his name was shouting accusations about Obama and the Muslim religion. He called Obama "a socialist with Islamic background." As he explained his views, a number of McCain supporters, including some Muslims, confronted him, a scene that was captured by Davin Hutchins of the American News Project:



But not everyone is siding with the crowd on this one. Over at the conservative Hot Air Web site, there's a robust debate going on in the comments section.

"Pretty much played straight down the middle. No quibbles," writes a user named LimeyGeek. "He is a socialist, and he does have an Islamic background. It's possible to derive an array of inferences from those two simple facts, some rational, some not so."

But others worry that this fringe element is hurting McCain's chances.

"They only serve to undermine the campaign, and they're annoyingly wrong to boot," writes MadisonConservative. "They're cretins who latched onto a mass email and never let go despite the fact that it was disproven."