McCain masks doing no better than McCain With the dismal economy providing an extra incentive for people to escape from reality, a whopping two-thirds of Americans say they will celebrate Halloween this year, and worsen their own personal economic situation by spending nearly $67 per person doing so, according to research by groups that are way too into this particular holiday. Consumer spending on Halloween 2008 will rise to $5.8 billion, up more than $700 million from last year. That's a lot of pumpkins, mini Milky Way bars and Jason masks! And speaking of, Barack Obama masks are outselling John McCain masks nationwide by about 57 percent to 43 percent. That's somewhat surprising, as McCain is a much scarier candidate, and it pretty much deals the Arizona senator a defeat in the last contest he realistically had a chance of winning. I haven't decided on my costume yet. Some co-workers have suggested I'd make a great Sarah Palin, but I suspect they just want to plaster my image on the Web or add it to my "Bad Hire" file in human resources. Besides, I like to give the heels and stockings a rest at least one day of the year! —Posted by David Gianatasio

October 15, 2008 in Gianatasio, Halloween, Politics | Permalink

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How is McCain the scarier candidate? I think they're both pretty benign. :)

Posted by: | Oct 15, 2008 9:26:41 AM

Ya gotta love it! You can say the old white guy is scary and it's satire or even 'news'... but if someone wrote that they thought the young black guy was scary it would be considered racist!

The REAL reason Obama does well in polls? People don't want to be thought of as racist for saying they're for McCain.

I thought this blog was about Ads, not another "Praise Lord Obama" blog.

Posted by: Mara Kotobuki | Oct 15, 2008 1:15:57 PM

Amen, Mara! I thought this was an advertising blog. It now seems AdFreak is part-time a political platform for the Democratic party. Sad.

Posted by: MickeyDee | Oct 15, 2008 1:52:41 PM

McCain is scarier then the "spread the wealth around messiah"? You idiots have no idea what damage this stuttering moron candidate is going to do to your paychecks.

Posted by: j clark | Oct 15, 2008 2:31:40 PM

SARAH palin had a nice line a week ago:
"I once went to a Halloween party as Tina Fey."
Who would Biden go as?
Neil Kinnock, I guess.

Posted by: TOM MESSNER | Oct 15, 2008 8:59:53 PM

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