TexasDevilDog
10-20-2004, 02:43 PM
http://www.newsleader.com/news/stories/20041017/localnews/1428112.html
In the magazine, CNN/Money staff writer Parija Bhatnagar broke the story about how the outcome of every presidential election for the last quarter-century has been correctly predicted based on the sales of Halloween masks. It all started back in 1980, when every kid on the block had to have a Ronald Reagan mask for Halloween. The trend continued four years later when Ronnie beat Mondale and, according to a costume marketing research firm, has held firm through every national election ever since. (Well, the Bill Clinton mask narrowly edged out the Papa George mask in 1992, but all the other winning percentages were substantial.)
This year, with Halloween just around the corner, George Dubya Bush masks have outsold Scary Kerry masks by a 57 percent to 43 percent margin. I'm going to vote anyway, of course, because I dropped from a family tree full of Yaller Dawg Democrats (so called because we'd supposedly vote Democratic even if the party nominated an old yellow dog for president). But if you believe in omens and signs and the power of weird coincidences, it's already settled.
In the magazine, CNN/Money staff writer Parija Bhatnagar broke the story about how the outcome of every presidential election for the last quarter-century has been correctly predicted based on the sales of Halloween masks. It all started back in 1980, when every kid on the block had to have a Ronald Reagan mask for Halloween. The trend continued four years later when Ronnie beat Mondale and, according to a costume marketing research firm, has held firm through every national election ever since. (Well, the Bill Clinton mask narrowly edged out the Papa George mask in 1992, but all the other winning percentages were substantial.)
This year, with Halloween just around the corner, George Dubya Bush masks have outsold Scary Kerry masks by a 57 percent to 43 percent margin. I'm going to vote anyway, of course, because I dropped from a family tree full of Yaller Dawg Democrats (so called because we'd supposedly vote Democratic even if the party nominated an old yellow dog for president). But if you believe in omens and signs and the power of weird coincidences, it's already settled.