Halloween: Trick or Treat or Tried and True Talking Point
If it's Halloween, it's time for politicians to include ghosts and goblins and ghouls in their rhetoric.
It's an ageless formula for campaign season: The calendar nears October 31 and out come all manner of menacing metaphors, mentions of masks and costumes, and a cacophony of cringeworthy Halloween language.
What have been the scariest Halloween mentions in politics?
What have been the silliest?
And which Senate candidate said in an ad: "I'm not a witch"?
(Hint: Turns out, her opponent wasn't a witch either.)
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