Politics and Halloween seem linked through the concept of "trick or treat" so it seems reasonable to note a piece on long term political demographics by Judis and Teixeria that is running in Salon.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/10/31/majority/index1.html
Essentially a two page summary of their new book, it predicts an emerging dominance of the Democratic party using the same arguments that Kevin Phillips used his famous 1969 piece that predicted the rise of the Republican party.
Long term social predictions are exceedingly difficult, but those based on demographic trends seem to be a bit more solid than those based on other techniques. Of course there are wildcards and perhaps external events will snuff out our democracy, but this is an interesting piece.
An interesting piece of current "trick or treat" from the politicans is the curious case of Mr Webster and Mr Pitt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/business/31ACCO.html
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