Everyone has their favorite way to predict who will win the Presidential election. Amazon likes to keep track of Halloween mask sales. Supporters of either candidate can buy rubber masks of each to wear for Halloween. So far, 57 percent of the masks Amazon has sold have been Obama masks, versus 43 percent for McCain masks.
The weird thing is that is right around the same number that McCain is getting in the latest tracking polls (Obama is tracking closer to 50 percent support). If you want some real helpful stats and links, check out Google Director of Research Peter Norvig’s Presidential Election 2008 FAQ page. He’s got links to all the latest polls, election prediction markets, truth scorecards, and studies measuring media bias.
Or you can just buy a mask. I’m not sure if they’ll let you in the voting booth with that, though.
So flag pin wise Palin won the debate, but Halloween mask wise Obama would be president?
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This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard. Some tough guys there are now starting to act weirdly. Anyway. The two, I think, are good friends. They just need to talk and perhaps have a meal together. Media sometimes makes something way far from the reality. Which is we need to check.
I guess we will now the results this coming holloween! lol.
Nice post there Erick! Keep it up!
Halloween is about scaring the public… both of these candidates do a great job of this each time the shift away from important issues into generalities that mean little to the common person.
Jon
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I am so, so tempted to buy an Obama mask, but I’ll probably be at the cinema watching the new Bond movie
Or maybe it’s the other way around -the one who is considered the biggest enough joke to be considered nothing more than a costume is bound to be the loser?
Good lord I hope so.
Ditto — Long tradition indicates that over 60% of voters [real ones, not just registered or presumed] are conservative. Polls, surveys, talking heads’ opinions are worthless!!!
Monkey face Barak Hussein will bite the dust big time on November 4 –Although it could happen before because of the fact that he is not an American citizen [born in Kenya]
“Monkey face Barak Hussein” you are very rude.
Name calling shows what type of person you are, a 5 year old who complains about losing. Obama will win and than you will learn to understand that he is the better choice. Bush beat Mcain a few years back and if he can’t beat Bush who half the world hates, than im sorry lol… Mcain isnt the right man. VOTE OBAMA!
To all the Khaleds, Omars, Muhammads, and the rest of towel heads out there: of course “half of the world” wants Obama! But, who the hell cares!!!
The presidential elections are for, surprise!!!, the next President of the United States, not the “united arab emirates” you stupid fool…
And, another thing: from now on, every time you see Barak Hussein Obama’s face you will not be able to help it, but to think of the “MONKEY FACE” Obama…lol, lol, lol, –Take that Khaled Hussein!!!
Philipe Cohen
dam dude… you are truly a rude guy who i guess finds name calling amusing. It’s sad to see that there are people like you who think and say things like this… but than again its behind a PC so I guess your might feel more “stronger”. Hope the best for you Philipe Cohen. Good luck this November.
I am sorry that you mistake my senator from Illinois for his father. His father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., was the one who was born in Kenya in 1936 and died in car accident back in 1982. My senator, Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawai’i, where his family still lives today on August 4, 1961. So think twice before jumping to conclusion that Obama II wasn’t a US Citizen by birth. Actually, it is John Sidney McCain III of Arizona who was born outside United States. He was born in Panama on August 29, 1936. Go ahead and ask Sen. McCain III where he was born and he will tell you it was Panama.
you are so racist it’s atrocious!! we are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants in this country. just because he doesn’t “look like you” doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.
Well,It seems that McCain might be the looser.
Are you sure Johnny is looser? How many people has he had sex with versus Barack?
Mmmm, interesting angle. I will ask you wife, and also your sister!!! Do they like, you know, the other color of sausage?
What is wrong with you? You talking about sex? Grow Up!
Yeap. “loose as a goose” –relaxed, calm and secure as the winner he will be on November 4. In spite of all the constant lies from the f****g liberal media, true American citizens will overwhelmingly vote for McCain, a true American hero!!! Screw “monkey face” and his vile supporters!!!
omama is scary. he cut you man. he fy you. he boogie man.
he bm. he make me so fraid. he make me dig hole and crawl in it.
oh mamaa potect me.
Could it not be that perhaps the people are picking the mask of the candidate who they are fearful will be president? Oh, no, save us! Can’t have Obama as a president!!! :0)
[yes, i support this idea, which lacks popularity on the 'net]
McCain and Palin make for an excellent Halloween team: The Boogeyman and the Wicked Witch of the West …
here are our sales %s for the last 4 weeks on Amazon (Obama / McCain):
last 4 weeks 62.5% / 37.5%
last 3 weeks 67.6% / 32.4%
last 2 weeks 71.4% / 28.6%
last 1 week 70.0% / 30.0%
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looks like obama is still winning
You f****g swede!!! like all Europeans, you have no clue. How dare you insult our presidential candidates!!! They may be flawed, but they are OUR candidates!!!
Now, shut up and go back to suck on your aquavit bottle.
I had the chance of meeting a few Europeans visiting Washington, D.C., and ALL these pathetic, overfed idiots expressed their support for Obama, although they have absolutely no idea about what he stands for: “a black President would be just great for USA.”
–Even worse, on the same breath they expressed their enthusiastic appreciation for the “Vantage Point” movie [a monumental flop] because ot the concept of an American president assassination!!!
[F**k them all. Their stupid Euros, too!!!]
To Khaled: Monkey Face is winning, but only for ugly masks sales!!!
Oh, excuse me… How “rude” of me…
I’m voting McCain, but I think it would be funnier to wear the Obama mask.
while i’m voting opposite of you jake, i agree with your comment. it’s halloween and i think it’s funnier to wear the mask of the opponent rather than my chosen candidate.
I wonder how the Hilary Clinton masks are selling…
Actually, I saw a bunch of them at a local drugstore, going for $0.57 each!!! Not a very popular item. Wonder why…
I make my girlfriend wear a Hillary mask when we’re in the sack. Nice….
@Barry O –You ARE THE MAN!!!! Hope that you favor doggy style!!!
Am thinking of a monkey face Obama mask for my woman. Doggy style also.
Matt
A little late on this news! Read this in TIME MAGAZINE 2 days ago. Yes, that’s right – printed paper beats the web by TWO DAYS.
oops. Kinda blew that one Erick.
Hmm.. I wonder if I can get a Palin mask anywhere..
Scare all the little children into thinking the earth is melting with this
Al Gore mask
http://images.f...asks/algore.jpg
My (college attending) daughter insists that the tracking polls do not include college students and they are more likely to be Obama supporters, so the masks vs poll may be indicative of a poll bias.
That’s because people are supposed to be something scary for Halloween and having Obama as President is scary! No candy for anyone that shows up at my door dressed as Obama!
I’ve seen the McCain masks at Walmart… Obama is no where to be found. Also, I thought Halloween masks of politicians are popular if they poke fun at the person… think Richard Nixon or George Bush. So the fact that the Obama mask has sold more may not be good for Obama.
Lee, college students tend to Obama supporters, but you also have to remember that college students often are fanatic about the candidate they support only to not vote when everything is said and done.
Ditto. The great majority of college students, as with most youngsters, do not like anything that represents the “old generation” [although they certainly enjoy their money] So the default would be… Barak Obama, of course. For them, it really does not matter that he does not have *any* experience on anything, no firm convictions on anything –other than his leftist ideals.
The young generation identifies with Obama because his [silly] mantra is “change” but, really, “change” into what?? He certainly banks on this.
We should all sober up and consider reality: over 60% of the real voters are conservative, because they love their great country: yes, the great old US of America!.
Youngsters are just a small number of actual voters who would not change anything at the ballot box. We will all see in a few years: they would grow up, get married [or not] have children, and realize that Barak Hussein Obama represents now a horrible nightmare. He will be soundly defeated on November 4. Yes, he will…
PS: Back to the masks –McCain looks like grandpa, so, who is he going to scare?
On the other hand, “monkey face” looks really scary –and he is because of many other essential [socialist] reasons…
See, now, Hillary does not look that dangerous…
Let’s hope it comes true…otherwise we could see the end of us.
The Zogby poll puts Obama ahead of McCain: 48% to 44%
–I wonder now about the “Bradley” effect, when Tom Bradley [the LA Mayor] lost the California election for governor, although many, many Californians promised their vote, they could not bring themselves to vote for a black candidate for governor at the ballot box.
This phenomenon is also known –for the very same reasons, as the “Wilder” effect [for Doug Wilder, when he run for governor of Virginia a second time] and the “Dinkins” effect [for David Dinkins and his re-election as the Mayor of New York City.]
Obama 08. If you don’t like Barack , you’re just racist!!!
I am not racist!!! In fact, I am black and proud. Just don’t like “monkey face” –And I WILL get one of them Obama’s mask for my woman… Love doggy style!!!
Maybe it is because Obama just scares people? He and his policies are too creepy for me.
OK, he is scary ugly, but the really scary part is what he has up his sleeve, what he could do to our country: taxes and more taxes, sending our money to countries that hate us, advancing socialists agendas, wrecking the educational and health care systems, “visiting and having tea” with terrorist dictators, and much, much more.
Lets’ defeat monkey face on November4!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the double comment, but I have to reply to Oliver’s comment.
Oliver, you do know that the education and health care system has already been wrecked in the US? In fact, you couldn’t even say that the US has an adequate health care or education system, it hasn’t for sometime.
And also Oliver, you must believe everything the media tells you which means that you suck, its true.
Back up your comments with fact, not here say. Lets not turn TechCrunch into “ObamaCrunch”.
This is quite disturbing and sickening. Not only does this hint at who will be president, it also hints at who has a fetish for Barrack Obama and John McCain. I’d hate to think what some of these masks are being used for, let’s hope it’s not bedroom role-play *shudders*.
Bedroom role-play using Obama’s mask? What is wrong with that? It happens Dwayne…
And I will tell you something else: there is a store in Miami where you can buy toilet paper with Obama’s face printed on it –Hillary too.
You write that the US does not have an adequate health care and education system? Maybe that is why thousands of people come here from all over the world to be treated by our doctors and to enroll in our colleges and universities.
It looks that YOU are the one drinking the Kool-Aid being pushed by the liberal media every second of the day. You must be a stupid vegetarian, with a brain that is getting smaller and smaller!
You’re taking what I mean by adequate out of context my friend. By “not adequate”, I am of course referring to the sky-rocketing price of any kind of medical treatment in the US. I think that the US needs to start lowering the cost, health care providers are merely corporate giants with the intention to turn down as many payments as they can.
I wasn’t referring to “American universities”, I’m referring to primary and high schools.
Btw, I’m not a “stupid vegetarian”. I love meat, and my brain last time I got it scanned isn’t shrinking. I’m sure the Australian doctors over here would have picked it up if it was.
Well I have no doubt that many of the people buying Obama masks are just trying to scare people about big government and high taxes …
Masks sales for last 7 days:
Obama – 63%
McCain – 37%
I’m being Obama for Hallowe’en, and I made a mask doctoring & makeup tutorial here:
http://pageslap...-for-halloween/