rssObama Pumpkins Promise Halloween for Hope
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Halloween falls just a few days before the “most important election of our lives,” as the saying goes, and some Obama supporters are hoping to turn the scary night into a mass mobilization event.
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 (below). 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., (at left).
I first heard about YesWeCarve from my friend, Josh Jeter. He is working on it with New Yorker Jason Powers, who dubs himself the “creative genius” of the operation, and Josh Horton, a Memphis Obama supporter who took the more basic title of “organizer.”
Meanwhile, Obama has taken a lead in Halloween masks in some cities — beating McCain by two to one in Boston. They both trailed Batman, however. (Walmart’s Obama and McCain masks retail for about $12, if you’re looking.)
The real Halloween star in demand is Gov. Palin, though, according to a new article in the Hartford Courant:
The latex masks depicting the beehived and bespectacled Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin are as scarce as a moose in Manhattan. And while some are scheduled to show up in Connecticut next week, supply is not expected to meet demand….
More images from YesWeCarve are below, including my favorite, a candy corn logo stencil:
14 Comments
Comment posted October 10, 2008 @ 9:30 am
Where are the grumpy old man stencils. Those pumpkins would be much scarier.
Comment posted October 25, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
The thought of Obama as the next president really is scary, so I guess this is appropriate.
Comment posted October 26, 2008 @ 9:35 am
The McCain pumpkins are much scarier I cant think of anything scarier than McCain as president!
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 7:17 am
American war hero vs. the most liberal senator in the U.S. congress? And you think the war hero is scarier?! Give me a break. An Obama presidency will be the beginning of the end of the United States and personal freedoms.
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 8:07 am
Personal freedoms??!! Like wire-tapping and forced childbirth?
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 8:17 am
Laugh it up American sheep.
Obama is going to walk away with half of your paychecks, open us up to attacks, and strap Democracy to the chair while Socialism throws the switch.
Enjoy your pumpkins.
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
How fitting. When Obama smiles the hair on the back of my neck stands up….
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
What about the one with Obama's picture and the word “Hype” underneath? I guess that would incite protest…
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 8:47 pm
SAA,
Forced childbirth? Really? Is that what the left is calling abortion now? And, I'm just curious, have you had a personal experience with wiretapping, or did you just watch an MSNBC report on it?
You, SAA, and your ilk are the most frightening aspect of this entire process: lazily clueless, sound bite parroting, bandwagon jumping, “I hate Bush” Obamaniacs lurching, zombie-like, out of the shadows and into the voting booth. AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2008 @ 9:04 am
Under Obama, taxes will be LOWER for everyone who makes less than a quarter-million a year. We were attacked on REPUBLICAN watch, and if Obama's economics plans are socialist, then ALL taxation is socialist. Does McCain support no taxes, or flat tax? No, he ALSO supports a progressive taxation system where the richer pay somewhat more. And he just “stopped his campaign” to go convince his GOP buddies to do an enormously socialist act, redistributing a trillion in taxpayer money to private banks.
Halloween must be a very difficult day for you, because you are so easily frightened by made-up stories.
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
That's not true. Obama's plan lower taxes for those earning less than $200k. Those earning between $200k and $250k will be taxed the same. Those earning over $250k will pay more. Read the plan!
Comment posted November 30, 2008 @ 10:41 am
forced childbirth is the reality if women forcibly impregnated as in the case of rape victims are denied a choice on whether to remain pregnant or not. there is no denying that forced pregnancy is a form of sexual violation in its own right and that women will be reduced to the legal status of “potential compulsory incubator” if women made pregnant against their will are not allowed to decide.
Comment posted November 30, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
forced childbirth is the reality if women forcibly impregnated as in the case of rape victims are denied a choice on whether to remain pregnant or not. there is no denying that forced pregnancy is a form of sexual violation in its own right and that women will be reduced to the legal status of “potential compulsory incubator” if women made pregnant against their will are not allowed to decide.
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