Trick or Vote! Obama-Biden Halloween Edition

Right around the corner: the High Holy Days of Halloween, up there with Chinese New Year and Thanksgiving in importance in our household. Agonizing over and careful selection of a costume starts in July and is a multi-month and fickle process, Chez Cynematic. (The five year old will be Yoda.)

You getting excited too? First of all, you need to get your pumpkin and carve a big Obama logo on it. Patterns and instructions here, at YesWeCarve. (Do yourself a favor, you MUST look at the awesome pics.)

Then, you need to figure out your costume. Paper Obama masks available here. People who want to be (or exorcise through playacting) scary-ass race-baiting, soul-sucking, brain-eating zombies can find McCain masks here.

I won't even Go There on the Palin thing. Too. Effing. Frightening.

Next, get youth voters & Parentocrats out with their kiddies fired up to vote with a Trick or Vote canvass. Looks like it can work a couple different ways: you organize and hit the street giving out vote-happy treats, or (maybe more workable for the Parentocrats on candy-dispensing duty?) you stay at home and let the voters come to you for those vote-happy treats.

Things you can hand out along with candy: pamphlets that have poll location-finding information. Stars and stripes pumpkins with election day information. Halloween-themed door-hanger reminders for those too grumpy to answer the door or out partying. For more about this nonpartisan, fun way to ask registered voters to vote, visit the Trick or Vote Wiki.

H/T to Shelbyville Manhattan's DailyKos diary.

Cynematic is back in the saddle! With DSL! And will hopefully post something over at P i l l o w b o o k soon, before cobwebs take over her personal blog.

Comments

[Lisa]

I have been driving my family nuts talking about this for weeks! I am happy to see it become organized on a larger scale. I ordered a roll of Obama stickers to give out along with the candy. My very best idea is to have two huge candy bowls - one Red one filled with DumDums and one Blue one filled with Smarties! :) Love the pumpkins - thanks for the link!

[Trick or Vote!]

Great Post! Thanks for the shout out!

Alex here, from Trick or Vote. Don't hesitate to get in touch if you want to host your own, or get involved with Trick or Vote in a city near you.

Because you might be too old to trick or treat, but you're never too old to trick or vote!

www.trickorvote.org

[cynematic]

Welcome Alex! Thanks for the comment love. Still figuring out how we're going to handle the canvassing thing (we just moved to a new neighborhood), so I'm hoping to join someone a little more organized.

Lisa, *rock* that Obama-pumpkin. YesWeCarve is having a contest, so go for it!

[Josh Neumann]

Obama's right-we want the tax cuts where they belong-the least productive people who create the least jobs and have no impact on the economy.

The harder you work, the more you are penalized. It's too bad your liberal views don't work in the real world like they do in the classroom.

[cynematic]

Josh, let me guess--for Halloween you'll be John McCain and scare all the children.

As for "the harder you work, the more you are penalized," you must be referring to the regressive tax policies of 8 years of deficit spenders Bush-Cheney, where all the rollbacks in taxes went to the wealthiest few Americans. But don't listen to me. Look at what Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman's analysis is of two of Bush's tax cuts: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/bush-tax-cut-mythology/

Or try another economist's debunking: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12scene.html

So, waiting for "trickle-down" economics to work now that Wall Street had to be bailed out the mess it created for all of us?

That fiasco didn't happen in a classroom. But "trickle-down" theory, a favorite hobbyhorse of conservative policy wonks, did.

[Frances]

After trick-or-treat canvassing is done, a good way for everyone to sleep off the sugar is in Obama pajamas. Yes, "Ojamas." They are almost done with their first batch. They're iffy on making it by Halloween, pretty definite by election day, and 100% certain for the Christmas tree. You can order them at http://www.ojamas.us.

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[neverfull]

This man has no understanding of the constitution and the separation of church and state. He should be impeached and not allowed to complete his term.