This file photo shows Big Bird (L) and other Sesame Street characters posing next to a temporarty street sign near Broadway in New York, in 2009. In a campaign dominated by talk of high unemployment ... more 

This file photo shows Big Bird (L) and other Sesame Street characters posing next to a temporarty street sign near Broadway in New York, in 2009. In a campaign dominated by talk of high unemployment and soaring deficits, Mitt Romney's threat to sack one particular government employee -- Sesame Street's Big Bird -- has ruffled feathers less