Halloween: Trick or Treat or Tried and True Talking Point
Extreme Mortman · C-SPAN
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Show Notes
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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