By GottaLaff
A new site, YesWeCarve.com, provides downloadable stencils and professional directions for voters who want to hammer trick-or-treaters with an Obama appeal. Forget mass-made yard signs, say the organizers, and carve your own “Barack-O-Lantern.” Emphasis on The O — get it?
While Get-Out-The-Vote programs typically send volunteers to knock on doors, this effort capitalizes on a night when swing voters are the ones going door to door.
The project has a sleek, open-source feel, with logos that hew closely to the Obama campaign’s official design patterns, and an interface that invites visitors to upload their own homemade designs and lanterns. While the site’s major stencils feature standard Obama logos, for example, visitors can also see a more offbeat pumpkin headshot of Obama, submitted by Manuel Guzman from Tuscon, Ariz. [...]
Meanwhile, Obama has taken a lead in Halloween masks in some cities — beating McCain by two to one in Boston.
Are pumpkins elitist? Is this some sneaky new form of terrorism? Oh no! Trick or treat!
No. Just treat.
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