If it's Halloween, it's time for politicians to include ghosts and goblins and ghouls in their rhetoric.

It's an ageless formula for campaign season: The calendar nears October 31 and out come all manner of menacing metaphors, mentions of masks and costumes, and a cacophony of cringeworthy Halloween language.

What have been the scariest Halloween mentions in politics?

What have been the silliest?

And which Senate candidate said in an ad: "I'm not a witch"?

(Hint: Turns out, her opponent wasn't a witch either.)

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