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14:32 October 23rd, 2008

Predictor of who will win Nov. 4, or just scary Halloween masks?

Posted by: Jeremy Pelofsky
Tags: Front Row Washington, , , ,

WASHINGTON - As Halloween approaches, the quadrennial exercise has begun to determine whether the presidential candidate mask that sells the best will predict the actual winner on Nov. 4.

The Web site buycostumes.com says it has accurately predicted the outcome of the last two presidential elections based on which mask sold the best, and so far 2008 sales are roughly in line with current opinion polls.

Its initial tally is trending towards Democratic hopeful Barack Obama versus rival John McCain, 54 percent to 46 percent. Of course the Web site encouraged shoppers to buy as many masks as they like, and so the scientific nature is in question. The masks go for 99 cents.

Amazon.com is also conducting its own sales survey and found similar results, 54 percent for Obama to 46 percent for McCain. That result, as of Thursday evening, comes despite Obama’s mask costing about $5 more than the McCain one. (Don’t ask us why please, ask Amazon.)

The RealClearPolitics average of polls finds that Obama is ahead by about 7.5 points as of now.

Click here for more Reuters 2008 campaign coverage.

Image credit: buycostumes.com

3 comments so far

The vast majority of Americans are always willing to listen and learn - it’s one of greatest our national strengths!

These past months, we have seen McCain demonstrate to us, both in the debates, and in the way he has conducted himself and his campaign, that he:

-is too slow on his feet, too petty, too erratic, and too cranky to be entrusted with running the USA,

-too hung up on old, last-century concepts, military issues, and especially on the war in Iraq,

-completely clueless about the lives and plights of his own countrymen and -women,

-and completely oblivious to the fact that even his beloved military power is not sustainable if the US as a society continues fragmenting, and falls behind our competitors around the world.

(My goodness, John McCain has even demonstrated trouble counting his many houses, condos, and automobiles!)

Make no mistake, the policies of deregulation, especially financial deregulation, begun under Ronald Reagan, continued over the last eight years by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and supported for 26 years by John McCain, have set America on a long slide down into second rate status. Like bombshells falling on a battlefield, the disastrous consequences of these failed and bankrupt Republican policies explode around us daily.

And make no mistake, the policies of John McCain and Sarah Palin, were they to be elected to office, would lock us into this downward slide - something no American who loves our country could possibly want to see happen!

Obama made the most important point of the campaign when he stated that our government, our policies, and yes, our budget, must reflect our values as a people.

- Posted by aix1825

Obama/McCain masks are plentiful on Sortprice, and think I saw a news story here in Wisconsin that McCain masks were slightly outselling Obama’s.

http://www.sortprice.com/halloween.html.

http://www.sortprice.com/halloween.html

- Posted by Jackson Vehue

come on, don’t ruin this funny article with campaign rhetoric!

- Posted by Mitch T

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