10/31/92:

After charging that Gov. Bill Clinton can win the presidential election only by using Halloween-style scare tactics, President Bush employed the same strategy yesterday, warning voters about the frightening prospect of his Democrat opponent becoming president and trying to deal with a nuclear war.

"You want to go the Clinton route, every day will seem like Halloween," Bush told a rally here during a 280-mile train trip across Wisconsin. "Fright and terror; witches and devils everywhere."

He also asked voters to consider the prospect of the Arkansas governor becoming president and having to face "some terrorist getting a hold of a nuclear weapon."

10/31/06:

President Bush said terrorists will win if Democrats win and impose their policies on Iraq, as he and Vice President Cheney escalated their rhetoric Monday in an effort to turn out Republican voters in next week's midterm elections.

"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses."

I don't know what Bush (the cringing infant goblin, not the brittle WASP fascist) is talking about: the terrorists clearly won 14 years ago.

And it's funny, it seems as though a lot of folks in Iraq will be going up to their attics and breaking out the packed-away creates of party favors they used 14 years ago:

10/31/92:

At a rally last night in Chippewa Falls, the last stop on his tour, Bush said he had just read a story reporting that a rally of 500,000 people would be held in Baghdad if he lost. "They can put that rally on hold, because I'm not going to lose the election," Bush said.

10/31/06:

Cheney, meanwhile, said in an interview with Fox News that he thinks insurgents in Iraq are timing their attacks to influence the U.S. elections.

"It's my belief that they're very sensitive of the fact that we've got an election scheduled," he said. Cheney said the insurgents believe "they can break the will of the American people," and "that's what they're trying to do."