10/27/2004 10:36:00 PM|||Mike|||Sales of political masks often predict the winner of the Presidential election.

My wife and I have a costume shop, and Bush masks are outselling Kerry.

But... Many buyers of Bush masks are also buying things to go with it. One bought a witch nose and said he was doing a Pinnochio thing. Others are doing blood and guts. People buying Kerry masks are just buying the mask.

One other thing: there is a Republican party headquarters a block away from the shop.

Back in the Spring, when the rest of us thought the nomination was wide open, our supplier was providing no Democratic masks but Kerry. I suspect a bit of bias - the old masks of Democrats, with the lone exception of Al Gore, are very, very ugly. The Republicans are not too bad, other than Nixon (still a decent seller). Yes, they are political caricature, and not pretty (except for Al Gore) but nowhere near as ugly as the Democrats.

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